CONTEXT The degree to which financial factors may influence use of cardiac stress imaging procedures is unknown. OBJECTIVE To examine the association of physician billing and nuclear stress and stress echocardiography testing following coronary revascularization. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PATIENTS Using data from a national health insurance carrier, 17,847 patients were identified between Novemb...

background: it has been prover that the prevalence of experiencing job related stress is very high among the dentists. this stress can be the result of factors such as poor lightening of dental office and noise. this stress can cause emotional distress and threaten dentists’ physical health and affect the quality of their life. this study is conducted to determine dentists’ professional quality...

BACKGROUND Job stress is one of the important issues in the health sector and its high effect on workers' productivity. Managerial skills can help organizations to improve employees' effectiveness and reduce job stress. The present study investigated the relationship between employees' job stress and managers' professional skills. METHODS This cross-sectional and correlation study was conduct...

BACKGROUND Dentists encounter numerous sources of professional stress, beginning in dental school. This stress can have a negative impact on their personal and professional lives. CONCLUSIONS Dentists are prone to professional burnout, anxiety disorders and clinical depression, owing to the nature of clinical practice and the personality traits common among those who decide to pursue careers ...

Introduction: Emotional intelligence is a social skill thatcontrols stress and affects one’s ability to cope with the demandsand environmental pressures; it so can improve professionalcompetence in health care providers such as nursing students.Training on emotional intelligence increases the mental healthand influences the mutual relationships, stress, depression ...

This study aims at to what extent the professional commitment of IT staff being affected by the amount of work stress and job satisfaction under the environment of economic downturn, as well as professional jobs IT staff being directly affected by work stress and job satisfaction that is the willingness of taking IT profession as their permanent career. According to the 280 effective questionna...

Background : Teachers especially working at university level are under a great deal of stress related to various occupational stressors. Occupational stressors contribute to organizational inefficiency, high staff turnover, absenteeism due to sickness, decreased quality, and quantity of practice, increased costs of health care, and decreased job satisfaction. When there is a prolonged experienc...

INTRODUCTION Professional stress can damage all organs and systems of exposed workers. The aim of this study was to assess the influence of occupational stress on lipid state of exposed professional drivers in road traffic. MATERIAL AND METHODS The atherogenic risk in vehicle drivers professionally exposed to stress was assessed by measuring total cholesterol, triglycerides, HDL-cholesterol a...