objective: bad news disclosure is one of the most complex tasks of physicians. recent evidences indicate that patients' and physicians' attitude toward breaking bad news has been changed since few years ago. the evidence of breaking bad news is different across cultures. the aim of this study is to evaluate the attitude of medical staff toward breaking bad news to provide a clinical guideline i...

OBJECTIVE Two studies examined the effects of the oath or reassurance ("truth induction") on 5- to 7-year-old maltreated children's true and false reports of a minor transgression. METHODS In both studies an interviewer elicited a promise to tell the truth, reassured children that they would not get in trouble for disclosing the transgression, or gave no instructions before questioning the ch...

Steven Cohen, MD Consultant with Allergan; Consultant with Galderma; investigator, FDA study with Cytori; Speaker with Cytori; Consultant with Cytori; Advisor with Cytori; Shareholder (excluding diversified mutual funds) with Cytori; Research Support Recipient from Cytori; Speaker with Tulip; Consultant with Tulip; none with Tulip; Consultant with Suneva; Research Support Recipient from Suneva;...

Attitudes and beliefs about sexual assault in general influence judgments about the veracity of specific sexual assault reports and disclosures (Taylor, 2007). The present study investigated the impact of gender, personal trauma history, and beliefs about gender and child sexual abuse (CSA) on judgments of the veracity of CSA disclosures. The study also examined judgments about other kinds of t...

Background Systematic reviews are increasingly used to inform health policy-making. The conflicts of interest (COI) of the authors of systematic reviews may bias their results and influence their conclusions. This may in turn lead to misguided public policies and systems level decisions. In order to mitigate the adverse impact of COI, scientific journals require authors to disclose their COIs. ...

Managers often provide self-serving disclosures that blame poor corporate financial performance on temporary, external factors. For example, many managers have pointed to the September 11th terrorist attacks and the downturn in the economy as explanations for their firm’s poor performance over the past year. Little is known about how financial analysts respond to such disclosures. Results of an...

We use computer-intensive techniques to study the informational properties of forward-looking disclosures in the MD&A sections of 10-K filings made with the SEC. We find that firms make more forward-looking MD&A disclosures when their stock prices have lower informational efficiency, i.e., when their stock prices poorly reflect future earnings information. The greater levels of forward-looking ...

Statement of Need Pancreatic exocrine insufficiency (PEI) is a serious condition with multiple causes, including chronic pancreatitis (CP), pancreatic cancer (PC), cystic fibrosis, and gastrointestinal surgeries, among others. Although progress has been made in the understanding of the epidemiology and pathophysiology of CP and PC as relevant to the etiology of PEI, this information has not bee...