BACKGROUND To assess the annual consultation prevalence and new onset consultation rate for doctor-diagnosed shoulder pain conditions. METHODS We identified all residents in the southernmost county in Sweden who received a shoulder pain diagnosis during 2006 (ICD-10 code M75). In subjects who did not consult due to such disorders during 2004 and 2005, we estimated the new onset consultation r...

Accurate data on primary care activity is key to health services planning and reconfiguration. Official data estimate general practice adult consultation rates to be 3.2 visits annually, based on patient self reports. We aim to estimate the consultation rate using practice based data and compare this to official estimates. We interrogated six general practices' information systems and estimated...

BACKGROUND In the United States, people with limited English proficiency (LEP) receive poorer medical care than those proficient in English. Few studies demonstrate how linguistic barriers complicate psychiatric care; in consultation-liaison (C-L) psychiatry, there are no published data about care disparities for patients with LEP or for whom English is not the preferred language (PL). OBJECT...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the development of psychosomatic medicine at our university hospital in Istanbul, which has an inpatient capacity of 3,000. Changing patterns of utilization of psychiatric service were analyzed in two 1-year surveys five-year intervals (1998, n=888) - (2003, n=1609). Psychiatric referrals were analyzed with regard to rate of consultation, demographic ch...

Regime switching in conjunction with penalized likelihood techniques could be a robust tool concerning the modelling of dynamic behaviours consultation rate data. To that end, this work we propose methodology combines aforementioned techniques, and its performance capabilities are tested through real application.

OBJECTIVE This study evaluated the institutional impact of a substance abuse consultation service in a hospital setting. METHOD Treatment and matched comparison groups were compared on five outcome variables: length of stay, total cost, reimbursement, readmission, and appropriateness of care. The treatment group consisted of patients with discharge diagnoses falling into targeted Diagnostic R...

BACKGROUND Despite the importance of the postnatal consultation, in Morocco, only 22% of women attended these consultations. The aim of this study was to identify associated factors with these consultations and offer suggestions to improve their use. METHODS This study was conducted in 2014 in Marrakech. A sample of women in reproductive age (15-49 yr) giving birth during 2013 year was enroll...