BACKGROUND Multiple factors influence the decision to enter a career in medicine and choose a specialty. Previous studies have looked at personality differences in medicine but often were unable to describe the heterogeneity that exists within each specialty. Our study used a person-centered approach to characterize the complex relations between the personality profiles of resident physicians a...

Our research investigates methods for creating effective concept extractors for specialty clinical notes. First, we present three new "specialty area" datasets consisting of Cardiology, Neurology, and Orthopedics clinical notes manually annotated with medical concepts. We analyze the medical concepts in each dataset and compare with the widely used i2b2 2010 corpus. Second, we create several ty...

BACKGROUND Utilization of specialty care may not be a discrete, isolated behavior but rather, a behavior of sequential movements within the health care system. Although patients may often visit their primary care physician and receive a referral before utilizing specialty care, prior studies have underestimated the importance of accounting for these sequential movements. METHODS The sample in...

In order to improve the quality of undergraduate graduation thesis chemistry specialty, combination college students' innovation and entrepreneurship training is discussed in this paper. According current situation existing problems, we analyze put forward corresponding strategies suggestions specialty. The advantages improving specialty are also analyzed according with training.

The field of forensic psychiatry implies a distinction between it and other areas of psychiatry. Whether this field can be so clearly staked out as to be delineated as a subspecialty of psychiatry is the subject of this brief paper. I propose (1) to examine the question of whether it is justified to speak of forensic psychiatry as a subspecialty; (2) to explore the definition of forensic psychi...

Specialty drugs are often many times more expensive than traditional drugs, which raises questions of affordability and value. We compared the value of specialty and traditional drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the period 1999–2011. To do this, we identified published estimates of additional health gains (measured in quality-adjusted life-years, or QALYs) and increase...

The authors details information related to the 2012 certification processing activity of the Bureau of Osteopathic Specialists, which oversees the work of the 18 specialty certifying boards of the American Osteopathic Association.

Hospitals and physicians are developing and marketing discrete and profitable specialty-service lines. Although closely affiliated specialist physicians are central to hospitals' service-line products, other physicians compete directly with hospitals via physician-owned specialty facilities. Specialty-service lines may be provided in a variety of settings, both inside and outside traditional ho...