background : facial harmony and beauty make people attractive. one of the important parts that has a significant role in esthetics is the position of maxillary and mandibular bones. this study aimed to evaluate the effect of different positions of both jaws on esthetic preferences among health professionals and laypersons. materials and methods : two colored photographs of e profile were select...

CONTEXT In neonatal intensive care, parents make important clinical management decisions in conjunction with health care professionals. Yet little information is available on whether preferences of health care professionals and parents for the resulting health outcomes differ. OBJECTIVE To measure and compare preferences for selected health states from the perspectives of health care professi...

Information security professionals have to assess risk in order to make investment decisions on security measures. To investigate whether professionals make such decisions unbiased and rationally, we conducted an economic online experiment and survey measuring risk attitude of security professionals and contrasting their behaviour with the general population. Participants were asked to state th...

Effective Health Care s Current NHS policy emphasises the need for good communication between health professionals and patients. s The most common complaints made by people with cancer are about poor communication and inadequate information. s Patients cannot express informed preferences about their care, choose to be involved in decision-making, or indeed choose not to participate, unless they...

OBJECTIVE To explore how people with dementia, their informal caregivers and their professionals participate in decision making about daycare and to develop a typology of participation trajectories. DESIGN A qualitative study with a prospective, multiperspective design, based on 244 semistructured interviews, conducted during three interview rounds over the course of a year. Analysis was by m...

OBJECTIVES To describe the preferences to complete questionnaires via the internet by schoolchildren, as well as to analyze the attitude towards the use of internet to communicate with health professionals. METHODS Cross-sectional study of a school population in Palafolls (Barcelona, n=923) was conducted in October and November 2013. Participants completed both internet and paper versions on ...

Web-based information is a valuable resource for people affected by stroke, however its accuracy and quality have been questioned. In this study, 30 stroke education websites were reviewed using accountability, readability, and reliability measures. Fifteen consumers and 11 health professionals evaluated six sites in terms of their design, content, and ease of use. The websites mostly met accou...

BACKGROUND Endocrine therapies for advanced breast cancer include tablets and intramuscular injections. When treatments have similar efficacy and tolerability profiles, addressing preferences about routes of administration is important. PATIENTS AND METHODS Two hundred and eight women>2 years post-breast cancer diagnosis were interviewed about their preferences for daily tablets or monthly in...

The objectives of this study were to explore dental and dental hygiene students', graduate students', and dental professionals' preferences for certain types of gloves and the reasons for these preferences (Aim 1), as well as determining their knowledge, attitudes, and behavior concerning the use of dental gloves as a means of barrier protection (Aim 2). Data were collected from 198 dental and ...