Every year in the United States, at least 250,000 deaths are attributed to lack of physical activity. Because of the health benefits of physical activity, national guidelines recommend participation in 30 minutes of accumulated moderate-intensity physical activity such as walking fast on five or more days of the week. However, most Americans fail to achieve this goal and report that their physi...

Drug testing is now ubiquitous in sport, and it often falls to the team physician to perform a variety of roles including interpreting test results, designing drug-testing programs, acting as medical review officer, and providing therapeutic use exemptions, education, and counseling. Proper understanding of current testing methods for drugs such as anabolic-androgenic steroids, erythropoietin, ...

Along with physician education in depression recognition and treatment, restricting lethal methods is an effective suicide prevention strategy. The present study surveyed a random sample (N = 697) of Ohio licensed social workers regarding client firearm assessment and safety counseling. Analyses sought to determine what independent factors would predict the probability that a social worker woul...

BACKGROUND Effective communication and education formats between health care providers and patients about medication use are associated with patients' satisfaction, recall of information, and eventually their health status. Limited research exists on physician-delivered education interventions, as well as on whether the current content of medication education and delivery formats satisfies the ...

CONTEXT National physician practices related to the clinical recognition and management of obesity are unknown. OBJECTIVES To estimate national patterns of office-based, obesity-related practices and to determine the independent predictors of these practices. DESIGN Serial cross-sectional surveys of physician office visits. SETTING Ambulatory medical care in the United States. PATIENTS ...

Objective: A limited set of common skin problems leads to a disproportionate percentage consultations that, in addition the economic burden and cost, will lead loss physician time confidence necessity importance counseling, but so far, written documentation. There is no information about frequency various diseases hospitalized patients. Therefore, our goal investigate dermatological requested f...