BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Family medicine preceptorships are crucial to educating future physicians, but there is a lack of research on how well preceptors are following the principles of primary care. This study used the Primary Care Assessment Tool (PCAT)-Provider Edition to determine how well medical preceptors provide quality medical care. METHODS A total of 134 family medicine preceptors...

BACKGROUND Over the past decade, facial vascularized composite allotransplantation has earned its place at the top of the reconstructive ladder. However, as in free tissue transfer, postoperative revisions are necessary to achieve optimal functional and aesthetic results. Although revising a facial vascularized composite allotransplantation may potentially risk the integrity of the graft, the a...

The simple request for a sick note can disguise important medical, psychologic or social issues. Disability may be influenced by social and cultural factors as well as by patient expectations. Assessment of impairment and subsequent disability is best made on the basis of objective data by use of a biopsychosocial model to ensure that the expression of disability does not mask other unaddressed...

Invariance principles (or functional central limit theorems) play an important role in econometrics and statistics. For example, to obtain asymptotic distributions of unit-root test statistics, researchers have applied invariance principles of various forms; see [24, 30, 40] among others. The primary goal of this paper is to establish invariance principles for a class of fractionally integrated...

conclusions a large number (about two-thirds) of emts had some sort of back pain; it is highly recommended to promote the attitude and motivation of the individuals to take care to prevent back injury and inform them of the principles of back care. implications for primary prevention and care practice include encouraging emts to apply accurate principles of back care. results data showed that w...

in this paper we introduce the notion of classical quasi-primary submodules that generalizes the concept of classical primary submodules. then, we investigate decomposition and minimal decomposition into classical quasi-primary submodules. in particular, existence and uniqueness of classical quasi-primary decompositions in finitely generated modules over noetherian rings are proved. moreover, w...

OBJECTIVE To improve the ability of primary care physicians to recognize the mechanisms and common presentations of low-velocity Lisfranc injuries (LFIs) and to impart an improved understanding of the role of imaging and principles of primary care in low-velocity LFIs. SOURCES OF INFORMATION A MEDLINE literature review was performed and the results were summarized, reviewing anatomy and mecha...