BACKGROUND Previous studies have investigated factors that are influential on the choice of training hospitals among residency physicians, but the effect of salary was not conclusive. In this study, we aimed to examine whether a higher salary attracted more residents to non-university hospitals participating in the Japanese Residency Matching Programme. METHODS Data on 475 hospitals/programme...

Background. ISENTRESS (raltegravir, RAL) is licensed for 400 mg b.i.d. use. An investigational 1200 mg q.d. regimen for reformulated raltegravir (re-RAL) is under clinical development. This study assessed the safety and pharmacokinetics (PK) of a higher dose of re-RAL. Methods. A double-blind, multiple-dose, randomized, fully domiciled study assessed the safety and PK of 1800 mg dose of re-RAL ...

New Zealand Maori, Pacific, and Asian people develop melanoma less frequently than New Zealand Europeans, but little is known about melanomas that develop in these people. We examined the characteristics of melanoma in these minority ethnic groups in New Zealand. In 2007, all first primary melanomas diagnosed from January 1996 to December 2006 were extracted from the New Zealand Cancer Registry...

PURPOSE Studies have suggested that male physicians earn more than their female counterparts. The authors examined whether this disparity exists in a recently hired cohort. METHOD In 2010-2011, the authors surveyed recent recipients of National Institutes of Health (NIH) mentored career development (i.e., K08 or K23) awards, receiving responses from 1,275 (75% response rate). For the 1,012 ph...

In equal employment cases it is important to compare the salary, hiring or promotion status of minority employees or applicants to that of similarly qualified majority members. Standard regression methods include a binary variable indicating minority status along with major job-related variables to assess whether belonging to a minority has a negative effect. Implicitly, this method assumes tha...

abstract introduction: job satisfaction considered as an important factor in increasing productivity, workers belonging and attachment to the work environment and improving the quantity and quality of work . therefore this factor is important in various careers. materials and methods: this is a descriptive-analytic study. it was done between occupational therapists and speech therapists in the ...

Members of the Turkish Parliament (MPs) earn a base salary. In addition, they earn a bonus, if they are retired from the labor force. A law enacted in January 2012 pegged this bonus to 18% of the salary of the President of Turkey. As a result, salaries of the retirement eligible MPs increased substantially. Using a data set of MPs who served in the Parliament between 2007 and 2015, and exploiti...