BACKGROUND The student-run clinic (SRC) has the potential to address interprofessional learning among health professions students. PURPOSE To derive a framework for understanding student learning during team-based care provided in an interprofessional SRC serving underserved patients. METHODS The authors recruited students for a focus group study by purposive sampling and snowballing. They ...

BACKGROUND Advances in science and technology and the changes in lifestyle have changed the concept of health in terms of etiology and mortality. The aim of this study was to test the psychometric properties of the original Patient Self-Advocacy Scale for use with an Iranian population. METHODS In the current study, 50 chronic patients between the ages of 25 and 75 were selected as samples. T...

Many medical authors and organizations have called for physician advocacy as a core component of medical professionalism. Despite widespread acceptance of advocacy as a professional obligation, the concept remains problematic within the profession of medicine because it remains undefined in concept, scope, and practice. If advocacy is to be a professional imperative, then medical schools and gr...

a bstract background: nurses’ infl uence on health policy protects the quality of care by access to required recourses and opportunities.this is a new and important concept for nursing; however, research studies on policy infl uence of nurses in health care sector are lacking a basic conceptual understanding of what this concept represents. the aim of this paper is to clarify the concept of nur...

Dissatisfaction with medical care has increased among patients and providers, despite unprecedented medical successes.1-3 This paradox may be caused by a number of possible reasons, including a higher degree of patient education, improved access to information, criticism of the profession by the media, emergence of alternative forms of medicine that make unrealistic promises, increased cost of ...

In April 2012, an Expert Group of specialist cancer nurses working in a variety of settings (e.g. chemotherapy delivery, chemotherapy service design, research, nurse leadership and patient information/advocacy) participated in telephone/web-based meetings, with the aim of sharing current experience of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) management, and reaching a consensus on the de...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES This article describes a client advocacy model for use by case managers. It delineates necessary competencies for the case manager and shares important strategies for effective client advocacy. PRIMARY PRACTICE SETTING(S) All practice settings across the continuum of health and human services and case managers of diverse professional backgrounds. FINDINGS AND CONCLUSION A...

BACKGROUND Advocacy is increasingly being recognized as a core element of medical professionalism and efforts are underway to incorporate advocacy training into graduate and undergraduate medical school curricula. While limited data exist to quantify physician attitudes toward advocacy, even less has been done to assess the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of future physicians. The purpose of t...

BACKGROUND Many aspects of clinical management of Lyme neuroborreliosis are subject to intense debates. Guidelines show considerable variability in their recommendations, leading to divergent treatment regimes. The most pronounced differences in recommendations exist between guidelines from scientific societies and from patient advocacy groups. Assessment of the methodological quality of these ...