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We identified adult ambulatory visits for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease/asthma, low back pain, diabetes mellitus, coronary artery disease/congestive heart failure, chronic kidney disease, and depression. We calculated the time spent by specialists in direct and indirect care for established...
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PMID: 20966777
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We assessed, in the clinical setting, the performance of existing measures of work intensity that are valid for nonclinical contexts.
A cross-sectional, multimeasure design involving work intensity assessments for the last patient encounter and for an entire half-day clinic session.
A convenience sa...
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PMID: 21063227
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OBJECTIVES. To define the patient population at Cape Town's district-level hospital offering specialist tuberculosis (TB) services, concerning the noted increase in complex, sick HIV-TB co-infected patients requiring increased levels of care. METHODS. A cross-sectional study of all hospitalised adult...
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PMID: 21920125
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A binary classification of vascular anomalies was approved 14 years ago by the International Society for the Study of Vascular Anomalies. The purpose of this study was to determine whether the International Society for the Study of Vascular Anomalies system is being used to categorize anomalies, and...
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PMID: 21200229
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Identification of pediatric patients at the end-of-life is not easy because criteria used are based on adults' criteria.
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PMID: 21717720
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Midwives can find it difficult to broach the subject of eating disorders in antenatal clinics, yet they are as important to tackle as obesity.
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PMID: 21706973
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People of Chinese ethnicity are the largest population in the world. Critical care medicine in China is developing rapidly and has achieved great advances in recent 20 years. The research contribution in critical care medicine among Chinese individuals in the three major regions of China--Mainland (...
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PMID: 20179654
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First clerkship specialty was significantly associated with mean subject examination scores (family medicine, 71.96 [95% confidence interval {CI}, 70.90-72.98], internal medicine, 73.86 [95% CI, 73.33-74.39], obstetrics/gynecology, 72.36 [95% CI, 71.64-73.04], pediatrics, 73.11 [95% CI, 72.38-73.84]...
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PMID: 20841536
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The ESP model improves operative experience of GS residents, particularly for complex gastrointestinal procedures. The expansion of subspecialty ESP should be considered....
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PMID: 20739844
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When the effects of demographic, socio-economic and health status characteristics were taken into account, physical inactivity and former or current smoking were significantly associated with an increased likelihood of hospitalization for those with type 2 diabetes. Specialist visits were positively...
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PMID: 20973431
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Evidence of plagiarism was found in 5.2% (95% CI, 4.6% to 5.9%) of essays. The essays of non-U.S. citizens were more likely to demonstrate evidence of plagiarism. Other characteristics associated with the prevalence of plagiarism included medical school location outside the United States and Canada;...
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PMID: 20643991
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An increase in NH-based colonoscopy from 10.0% in 1993 to 15.1% in 2005 (P<0.0001) was found. In the multivariate model, younger, healthier men living in higher income areas were significantly more likely to undergo NH-based colonoscopy. Surgeons and other practitioners (eg, nongastroenterologists a...
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PMID: 20652156
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The objective of the study was to describe the work and sleep patterns of doctors working in Australian hospitals. Specifically, the aim was to examine the influence of work-related factors, such as hospital type, seniority, and specialty on work hours and their impact on sleep. A total of 635 work...
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PMID: 20636212
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Most patients with cancer will be looked after by a diverse team made up of members from community- and hospital-based services. This team will include radiation oncologists. Radiotherapy is an important part of radical or palliative management in about 50% of patients with cancer. In recent years t...
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PMID: 21125059
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The 1-year periodic prevalence of opioid use in Norwegian children and adolescents is only one-sixteenth of the previously reported prevalence in the Norwegian adult population. Children and adolescents primarily receive opioids for acute pain....
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PMID: 20609118
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The neurological practice suffered considerable changes during the last twenty years. The recent therapeutic methods and the acceptance of the ideology of evidence based medicine, which is based on confidence in statistics, changed the reasoning of the neurologists. Therapy protocols intrude into the...
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PMID: 20648778
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Female patients were less likely than male patients to see a specialist within a month. The nature of the new condition and the source of referral were significantly associated with waiting time. Compared with those referred by a family physician, patients referred by another specialist or a health...
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PMID: 20632519
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An invited commentary is a short article that describes an author's personal experience of a specific topic. Unlike a review article, the author gives his own opinions and perspectives. It typically addresses a current, hot and often controversial subject. It may take two formats, namely, provide an...
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PMID: 20658102
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The authors explore issues surrounding digital repositories with the twofold intention of clarifying their creation, structure, content, and use, and considering the implementation of a global digital repository for medical education research data sets-an online site where medical education research...
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PMID: 20520037
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We investigated the self-reported HIV testing practice among physicians treating tuberculosis in Australia and New Zealand and used logistic regression to assess factors associated with a routine offer of HIV testing in cases of tuberculosis. Of 290 subjects, 61% always recommended an HIV test for a...
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PMID: 20498105
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Women and older people are overrepresented among patients with low priority. Conditional on age, women with low priority have lower income and less education than women with high priority. Among men below 50 years, patients with low priority have less education than patients with high priority. CONC...
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PMID: 20060613
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