Referral Practices for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia: A Survey Study by Deirdre A. Conroy, Matthew R. Ebben

“…Additional physician education is needed.…”
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When can cancer patient treatment nonadherence be considered intentional or unintentional? A scoping review. by Leon Wreyford, Raj Gururajan, Xujuan Zhou

“…The importance of Trust in the physician / patient relationship is understated in papers; 6. …”
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Association between purpose in life and healthcare use among women and men in Germany: cross-sectional analysis of the nationally representative German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP)... by Hans-Helmut König, André Hajek

“…Therefore, the goal of this study was to examine the association between purpose in life and HCU (in terms of frequency of outpatient physician visits and hospitalisation) stratified by sex.Design Cross-sectional study.Setting and participants A representative sample of the general adult population in Germany (n=1238; collected from September 2020 to February 2021); taken from the innovation sample of the German Socio-Economic Panel.Outcome measures The frequency of outpatient physician visits in the past 3 months was used as first outcome measure. …”
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Vitamin D Deficiency Presenting as Proximal Myopathy: An Overlooked Diagnosis - A Case Series and Review of the Literature by Venkatraman Rajkumar

“…Insidious onset and progressive proximal pelvic girdle myopathy, in the absence of other neurological findings, in the appropriate patient should prompt the physician to test for serum 25 hydroxyvitamin D levels. …”
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Ocular Ultrasonography: A Useful Instrument in Patients with Trauma Brain Injury in Emergency Service by Julie Natalie Jimenez Restrepo, Oscar Javier León, Leonardo Alexander Quevedo Florez

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Selecting Candidates for Liver Transplantation: A Medical Ethics Perspective on the Microallocation of a Scarce and Rationed Resource by Eric M Yoshida

“…The ethical issues concerning fair allocation surrounding liver transplantation are explored, from both the referring physician's perspective and the perspective of the transplant physician. …”
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The influence of doctoral management and medical procedures on patient satisfaction: An analysis based on appointment and medical procedure data by Terangjaya Yadi Fakhruzein, Dewi Pramesti, Widadi Budi, Salsabila Riska Nadiya

“…The impact of medical procedures and physician management on patient satisfaction is investigated in this study. …”
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M-Mode in grade 3 dyspneic patients assessment by Ravikanti Karthik, Yerramsetty Venu Sashank, Kumar Ranjith K., Haward Raymond

“…The M-Mode parameter, along with the emergency physician clinical Gestalt (M-Mode model), was compared with the final diagnosis at discharge or death of the patient. …”
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Management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease during Pregnancy and Breastfeeding Varies Widely: A Need for Further Education by Vivian Wai-Mei Huang, Hsiu-Ju Chang, Karen Ivy Kroeker, Karen Jean Goodman, Kathleen M. Hegadoren, Levinus Albert Dieleman, Richard Neil Fedorak

“…Results. 183 practicing physicians completed the questionnaire: 97/183 (53.0%) gastroenterologists; 75/183 (41.0%) general practitioners; and 11/183 (6.0%) other physicians. …”
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Internet-Based Asthma Education -- A Novel Approach to Compliance: A case Report by Cindy O'hara, Dilini Vethanayagam, Carina Majaesic, Irvin Mayers

“…In an Internet-based asthma management program, patients are reviewed by a physician, receive education and are given a unique password that provides program access. …”
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Transitory Spontaneous Remission of Myelodysplasia in an Elderly Man while Receiving Intravesical Bacillus Calmette-Guérin for Bladder Cancer: A Case Report and Review of the Liter... by Nigel P. Murray, Cynthia Fuentealba, Isidora Salazar, Aníbal Salazar, Marco Antonio Lopez, Simona Minzer

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Herbal Use among Presurgical Patients in Turkey: A Cross-Sectional Study by Fulya Yilmaz, Hazal Ezgi Çifci

“…Twenty five patients were taking a single herbal medication and 52 patients were taking more than one. 92.5% of patients do not know the side effects of herbal medications. 35 cases of operation patients were questioned by the physician about herbal use, and 228 cases were not questioned by the physician. …”
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Long-Term Safety and Effectiveness of Canakinumab in Patients with MKD/HIDS: Interim Analysis of the RELIANCE Registry by Prasad T. Oommen, Tilmann Kallinich, Juergen Rech, Norbert Blank, Julia Weber-Arden, Jasmin B. Kuemmerle-Deschner

“…Disease activity, evaluated by physician-reported (physician’s global assessment, disease remission, C-reactive protein, serum amyloid A, erythrocyte sedimentation rate) and patient-reported (autoinflammatory disease activity index diary, disease activity, fatigue, impact on social life) measures, was generally well controlled throughout the study. …”
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The family medicine accelerated track at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center: results from a 10-year program to bend the primary care curve by Betsy Goebel Jones, Ronald C. Cook, Felix Morales, Keeley Hobart, Steven L. Berk

“…Background Texas is one of the states with the lowest access to usual sources of primary care; most critically, family medicine (FM) has been projected to have the greatest physician shortage increase between 2018 and 2032. …”
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Impact of Clinical Experience and Diagnostic Performance in Patients with Acute Abdominal Pain by Helena Laurell, Lars-Erik Hansson, Ulf Gunnarsson

“…The aims were to evaluate the importance of the formal competence of the emergency department physician, the patient’s time of arrival at the emergency department, and the use of a structured schedule for investigation of patients with acute abdominal pain. …”
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Exploration of the Motivational Factors that Influence the Maintenance of Health by Misha Choudry, Latha Ganti

“…The primary objective is to leverage this knowledge to enhance patient-physician relationships and improve the quality of care…”
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Eksperyment medyczny przeprowadzany na organizmie ludzkim – aspekty prawa międzynarodowego, europejskiego i krajowego by Leszek Karski

“…The final section discusses the role of the physician in medical research in light of the norm included in the 1996 Act on the professions of the physician and dentist.…”
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Is it Time to Recognize Political Anxiety as a Social Determinant of Health? by Brandon Ambrosino

“…Photo ID 23828612 © Thevirex | Dreamstime.com Introduction Physicians are on the lookout for social determinants of health, which are those economic, social, and environmental factors that shape a person’s well-being (or lack of it). …”
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Patient Non-Adherence to Medication in Inflammatory Bowel Disease by Alan BR Thomson

“…Dr Sewitch and colleagues at the University of Montreal and McGill University undertook a prospective study that provided evidence for the important relationship between patient-physician discordance and patient nonadherence with medication for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).…”
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Errors in Aerosol Inhaler Use and Their Effects on Maternal and Fetal Outcomes among Pregnant Asthmatic Women (Subanalysis from QAKCOP Study) by Wanis H. Ibrahim, Fatima Rasul, Mushtaq Ahmad, Abeer S. Bajwa, Laith I. Alamlih, Anam M. El Arabi, Dhabia Al-Mohannadi, Mohammed Y. Siddiqui, Israa S. Al-Sheikh, Azdin A. Ibrahim

“…This was a cross-sectional, face-to-face, prospective study of 80 pregnant women with physician-diagnosed asthma. Seventy-three and 41 asthmatic pregnant women reported using pressurized metered dose inhalers (pMDIs) and dry powder inhalers (DPIs), respectively. …”
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