PURPOSE The purpose of the current study was to explore among young adults whether celebrity worship predicted the incidence of elective cosmetic surgery within the period of 8 months after controlling for several known predictors of elective cosmetic surgery. METHODS A total of 137 young adults completed questionnaire measures of attitudes toward a celebrity whose body image they admired, pr...

Purpose The purpose of the current study was to explore among young adults whether celebrity worship predicted the incidence of elective cosmetic surgery within the period of eight months after controlling for a number of known predictors of elective cosmetic surgery. Methods 137 young adults completed questionnaire measures of attitudes towards a celebrity whose body image they admired, previo...

BACKGROUND Parotid metastases from cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (CSCC) are associated with poor prognosis. However, the incidence of occult parotid lymph node metastases in high-risk CSCC is unclear. Therefore, the role of elective parotidectomy is still controversial. The purpose of the present study was to analyze the value of elective parotidectomy in patients with high-risk CSCC. PAT...

Objective. To design and implement an elective course in information mastery and assess its impact on students’ ability to identify information needs and formulate clinically relevant, evidence-based answers. Design. A semester-long (15-week) elective course was offered to third-year (P3) doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) students that outlined the necessary knowledge and skills for using information...

Background: Emergency Caesarean birth in labour has been associated with an increased chance of infection, bleeding (increasing the need of blood transfusion) and Deep Venous Thrombosis when compared with both vaginal birth and elective caesarean birth Objectives: to compare emergency and elective Caesarean section with regard to intra operative and post operative complications in both mother a...

An external elective period is included in the curriculum of most medical schools in the United Kingdom. Of this year’s applicants for elective grants at one school, 97% planned to go abroad; 69% of applicants chose developing countries, the most popular destination being southern Africa. Attention has been drawn to the potential health risks facing elective students (J H Cossar et al, fifth in...

Objective : To evaluate the clinical outcome of emergency and elective operation of splenectomy with periesophagogastric devascularization in treating upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage resulted from portal hypertension. Methods : We retrospectively reviewed 219 patients of upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage resulted from portal hypertension treated using emergency or elective operation between J...

BACKGROUND Patients with schizophrenia need continuous elective medical care which includes psychiatric treatment, antipsychotic medication and somatic health care. The objective of this study is to assess whether continuous elective psychiatric is associated with less health care costs due to less inpatient treatment. METHODS Data concerning antipsychotic medication and psychiatric and somat...