A minimal-contact smoking cessation program, designed for use in a health care setting, is described. Smokers receiving medical care as inpatients or outpatients at the Ann Arbor (Mich.) Veterans Administration Hospital receive a brief consultation about their smoking from a health practitioner. (For inpatients, the consultation occurs near the time of the patient's discharge from the hospital....

Regena Spratling, PhD, RN, CPNP, Rita H. Pickler, PhD, RN, PNP-BC, FAAN, Christina Calamaro, PhD, CRNP, Juanita Conkin Dale, PhD, RN, CPNP-PC, Sharron Docherty, PhD, RN, PNP-BC, FAAN, Catherine J. Goodhue, MN, CPNP, Jill Kilanowski, PhD, RN, APRN, CPNP, FAAN, Ann Marie McCarthy, PhD, RN, FAAN, Mary C. O’Laughlen, PhD, RN, FNP-BC, FAAAAI, Lois S. Sadler, PhD, RN, PNP-BC, FAAN, Leigh Small, PhD, ...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Ayurveda views medicine as an art of healing where the physician-patient relationship matters the most. The Ayurvedic healing arts address the growing need of compassionate bedside medicine. The ancient Ayurvedic text, Charaka Samhita, says, “A physician, even if well versed in the knowledge of diseases and their treatments, doesn’t try to enter int...

There is a substantial body of literature pertaining to the role of the nurse practitioner. Research directed towards consumer satisfaction suggests that the care provided by nurse practitioners is perceived as at least equal to that provided by a medical practitioner. However, there is a paucity of literature examining the nurse practitioner role in the psychiatric/mental health field. An eval...

OBJECTIVE To investigate current use of the internet and eHealth amongst adults. DESIGN Focus groups were conducted to explore participants' attitudes to and reasons for health internet use. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES The focus group data were analysed and interpreted using thematic analysis. RESULTS Three superordinate themes exploring eHealth behaviours were identified: decline in expert aut...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Ayurveda views medicine as an art of healing where the physician-patient relationship matters the most. The Ayurvedic healing arts address the growing need of compassionate bedside medicine. The ancient Ayurvedic text, Charaka Samhita, says, “A physician, even if well versed in the knowledge of diseases and their treatments, doesn’t try to enter int...

Debate has persisted over the raison d'être of the Information Systems (IS) discipline. There are many facets to this complex issue, including two closely related ones, namely rigour and relevance in IS research, and the relationship between IS academics and practitioners. The aim of this paper is to further explore and affirm the practitioner perspective of relevance, and to develop a shared u...

General practitioners tend to regard psychologists as an alternative resource for patients. This paper describes an approach to clinical psychology in general practice in which a team of psychologists works with a general practitioner on a consultancy basis. In this way the psychologists and general practitioner work together, with the general practitioner retaining responsibility for the patie...

The majority of people in the community who have a psychiatric disorder will consult their general practitioner. Referrals from general practice to specialist services are, however, relatively rare. The filter between primary care and specialist care has been characterized by Goldberg and Huxley as the least permeable of the filters separating psychiatrists and other specialists from the popula...

The obesity epidemic raises important and complex issues for clinicians and policy-makers, such as what clinical and public health measures will be most effective and most ethically-sound. While Nir Eyal’s analysis of these issues is very helpful and while he correctly concludes that “conditioning the very aid that patients need in order to become healthier on success in becoming healthier” is ...