OBJECTIVES To explore determinants of change in pediatrician supply in Japan, and examine impacts of a 2004 reform of postgraduate medical education on pediatricians' practice location choice. METHODS Data were compiled from secondary data sources. The dependent variable was the change in the number of pediatricians at the municipality ("secondary tier of medical care" [STM]) level. To analyz...

tin in 84 patients with multiple myeloma (MM) and in 13 healthy controls. The level of measured antiangiogenic agent was correlated with the phase and stage of the disease, and most importantly with clinical and laboratory parameters depicting the disease activity (haemoglobin, creatinine, albumins, calcium, M-component, C-reactive protein, b2-microglobulin, lactate dehydrogenase, stage of bone...

background: the ministry of health and medical education of iran and many other countries advice physicians to use this guideline for diagnosis and treatment of acute otitis media (aom), but there is not any evaluation of effectiveness and obedience of this guideline, so the aim of this study was to evaluate the attitude of pediatricians, the most important group that interfere with these patie...