OBJECTIVE To quantify and describe the role of internist and pediatric rheumatologists in the care of children with rheumatic diseases and identify factors associated with internist rheumatologists' willingness to treat children. METHODS We surveyed physician members of the American College of Rheumatology who currently practice in California (n = 589). Bivariate and logit analyses were used ...

1 Internist and gastroenterologist, Assistant Professor at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Hospital Universitario San Ignacio. Chief of the Clinical Gastroenterology Unit at Clínica de Marly 2 Internist and gastroenterologist at Clínica Reina Sofía, Graduate Academic Coordinator of Gastroenterology at Fundación Universitaria Sanitas 3 Epidemiologist and gastroenterologist at Clínica Reina ...

A general internist is a physician who provides scientifically based, empathic care for the nonsurgical illnesses of adolescents and adults. This care tends to be characterized by a mutual personal commitment between doctor and patient, by stability over time, by substantial breadth, by availability, and by an appropriate attention to elements of human support, sensitivity, and concern. It is m...

1 Master of Public Health, Master of Health Administration, Hepatology Section, Department of Internal Medicine, Fundación Cardio-Infantil, Bogotá, Colombia. 2 Second Year Resident, Department of Internal Medicine, Universidad del Rosario, Fundación Cardio-Infantil, Bogotá, Colombia. 3 Internist, Gastro-hepatologist in the Hepatology Section of the Department of Internal Medicine, Fundación Car...

PROTEGE-II is a methodology and a suite of tools that allow developers to build and maintain knowledge-based systems in a principled manner. We used PROTEGE-II to reconstruct the well-known INTERNIST-I system, demonstrating the role of a domain ontology (a framework for specification of a model of an application area), a reusable problem-solving method, and declarative mapping relations in crea...