نتایج جستجو برای: consultation rate
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INTRODUCTION Influenza is a major cause of morbidity and mortality and occurs in epidemics in the winter. This study is an evaluation of a population-based prevention program against Influenza, implemented during autumn 2000 by the Health Department of the Canton of Vaud. METHODS A pre-intervention/post-intervention design was used. In June 2000 and March 2001, 4007 questionnaires were sent t...
OBJECTIVE To identify the determinants of practice location and of outreach consultation of recently graduated psychiatrists. METHODS We surveyed 153 psychiatrists who graduated from the University of Toronto Department of Psychiatry between January 1990 and June 2002 (response rate 51%), on the basis of a self-administered mail questionnaire. The survey assessed factors that influenced pract...
BACKGROUND Equity in health care across all social groups is a major goal in health care policy. Immigrants may experience more mental health problems than natives, but we do not know the extent to which they seek help from primary health care services. This study aimed to determine a) the rate immigrants use primary health care services for mental health problems compared with Norwegians and b...
The purpose of our study was to determine the factors that influence the use of telemedicine consultation by primary care physicians (PCPs) in the management of patients with problem wounds. A short questionnaire was administered to thirty-six PCPs who referred to our Wound Care Program within one year. Participants were asked to rate the importance of specific concerns and benefits regarding t...
BACKGROUND Prompt utilization of health services on detecting breast symptoms can improve breast cancer (BC) survival. Little is known about Chinese women's help-seeking behaviour. Our aim was to determine patterns of self-referral among Hong Kong Chinese women with self-detected breast symptoms. METHODS We recruited 37 women awaiting their first consultation at public hospitals for breast sy...
BACKGROUND The asymptomatic general check-up (AGCU) is a common consultation in primary care. Detractors of the AGCU cite a lack of evidence and the harm of over-investigation. Proponents cite the opportunity for the GP to engage in health promotion and explore hidden concerns of the patient. OBJECTIVES To research Irish GP experiences with the AGCU, including their approach to the consultati...
Cost offset from a psychiatric consultation-liaison intervention with elderly hip fracture patients.
OBJECTIVE The authors hypothesized that psychiatric liaison screening of elderly patients with hip fractures would shorten the average length of hospital stay and increase the proportion of patients who returned home after discharge. METHOD The study was performed at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York and Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. The subjects were 452 patients 65 years o...
BACKGROUND A patient's satisfaction with a consultation may be influenced by many factors relating to both patient and doctor. AIM This study set out to examine the effects of emotional disturbance and its detection on general practice patients' satisfaction with the consultation. METHOD A prospective study involving 893 adult patients attending 12 general practitioners in Glasgow was carri...
The article of Marc Jamoulle shows the importance of the contribution of general practitioners (GPs) in improving the quality and the efficiency of the health systems. Starting from the concept of quaternary prevention for reducing excessive costs in the preventive procedures, he suggests a change of paradigm in every daily activity of the GP in order to have a stronger ethical approach to the ...
Background & Aims: Teleradiology as an efficient way for avoiding unnecessary transfer of patients to special medical centers requires the images with digital format. However, in some developing countries, including Iran, imaging is being done using non digital devices. In such cases, changing analog images into digital ones can solve the problem. The method which is nowadays used for digita...
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