Shared decision-making in type 2 diabetes: a systematic review of patients’ preferences and healthcare providers’ perspectives by Maryam Peimani, Anita L. Stewart, Gholamreza Garmaroudi, Ensieh Nasli-Esfahani

“…Of the 12 studies of providers, only 5 reported that providers had positive views towards SDM and preferred to involve patients in decision-making. A comprehensive list of SDM facilitators and barriers included patient factors (facilitators like higher health literacy and motivation, and barriers like blind trust in physicians and poor health), provider factors (facilitators like a physician's information-giving behavior and medical knowledge/technical skills, and barriers like a paternalistic attitude and poor interpersonal style), and context factors (facilitators like physician accessibility and availability, and barriers like a lack of system support and low continuity). …”
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Knowledge, Attitude, Awareness, and Practice Regarding Demodex Mites Among the Thai Population by Paichitrojjana A, Paichitrojjana A

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Level-8 Ph.D. Programs In Medical Sciences: High Time For The Higher Education Commission (HEC) Of Pakistan To Establish A Medical Wing by Wafa Omer

“…The competency framework that is being developed for the PhD trainees across Pakistan is not tailored according to the needs of the practising physicians opting for a PhD in Medical Sciences across Pakistan.5 PhD in Urdu language, Agriculture Poultry science, biological sciences or other non-medical fields cannot have the same competency framework as that for medical professionals who are involved in diagnostic and clinical work in the hospitals along with research dealing with human subjects and patients. …”
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Factors Influencing the Willingness of Hospitalized Children’s Parents to Engage in Patient Safety: A Cross-Sectional Study by Kim Y, Chang M

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Rare epithelial gastric cancers: a review of the current treatment knowledge by Angelica Petrillo, Margaret Ottaviano, Luca Pompella, Emilio Francesco Giunta, Pasquale Pisapia, Gianpaolo Marte, Andrea Tufo, Sara Di Lorenzo, Jessica Orefice, Chiara Miceli, Umberto Malapelle, Bruno Daniele, Ferdinando De Vita

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Plasmablastic Lymphoma: A Review of Current Knowledge and Future Directions by Ghaleb Elyamany, Eman Al Mussaed, Ali Matar Alzahrani

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Nurses’ Knowledge and Attitude towards Postoperative Pain Management in Ghana by Shamsu-Deen Mahama Adams, Shokoh Varaei, Fatemeh Jalalinia

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Competencies of nurses to participate in safe medication management practices for biologics: A scoping review. by Wansheng Li, Li Li, Linbo Li, Cardenas Xiaodong, Mudiao Chen, Hongye Liu, Peirao Li

“…Even though nurses are essential in patient care, detailed knowledge regarding their competence and role in the safe administration of biologics is lacking.…”
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Some considerations about taking decisions in the medical assistance area. by Luis Alberto Corona Martínez

“…In this article the most outstanding characteristics of the medical decision taking are identified: the decisions transcendence, great influence of time factor; probabilistic character of Medicine as a science, ¨relative¨ predictability of pathologic phenomena, variability of medical knowledge, patient involving in decisions, and limited objectivity of problems and decisions. …”
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Emergency Medicine as a Medical Speciality in Nigeria: Challenges and Prospects by Wahab Yinusa

“…The International Federation of EM defines it as a field of practice based on the knowledge and care required for the prevention, diagnosis and management of acute and urgent aspects of illness and injury, affecting patients of all age groups with a full spectrum of episodic, undifferentiated physical and behavioural disorders. …”
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Educating the future: Serbian healthcare students’ knowledge and attitudes toward urinary incontinence by Dragana Milutinović, Dragana Simin, Marijana Ostoić, Sonja Golubović, Dragana Živković

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EXPLORING DENTISTS' KNOWLEDGE AND PERSPECTIVES ON ORALBIOPSIES AT BAQAI DENTAL COLLEGE, KARACHI by Samara Rais, Nauman Sheikh, Zarah Subhan, Qasim Saleem, Ayesha Azmat, Ramsha Tariq

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Assessing Nurses Knowledge of Glasgow Coma Scale in Emergency and Outpatient Department by Harvinderjit Kaur a/p Basauhra Singh, Mei Chan Chong, Hari Chandran a/l Thambinayagam, Mohd Idzwan bin Zakaria, Siew Ting Cheng, Li Yoong Tang, Nurul Hafizan Azahar

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Research on Key Issues of Functioning Domain Knowledge Representation Based on ICF by Xiaohua LIN, Danhong LIN

“…Functioning is the core content which is highly regarded by patients and medical intervention in rehabilitation clinical practice. …”
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Assessment of Hand-Washing Knowledge and Practice among Nursing Undergraduates in Saudi Arabia by Wajid Syed, Mahmood Basil A. Al-Rawi

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Untangling the complex mechanisms associated with Alzheimer's disease in elderly patients using high-throughput RNA sequencing data and next-generation knowledge discovery methods:... by Hind A. Alkhatabi, Peter Natesan Pushparaj

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Patient satisfaction with Indonesian sharia hospital services: Halal healthcare tool and implications for loyalty-WoM by Muhammad Alfarizi, Rafialdo Arifian

“…However, there is resistance to the influence of the medical facility atmosphere on satisfaction caused by the concentration of patients in medical services and solving health problems. …”
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Delay in seeking medication for oral cancer and its influencing factors – a review of research progress by Yuanyuan YANG, Jiegang HUANG, Huaming MAI, Qingsi OUYANG

“…This paper provides a comprehensive review of the current literature on delayed medical consultation in oral cancer patients, both nationally and internationally. …”
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Being there: A scoping review of grief support training in medical education. by Laura Sikstrom, Riley Saikaly, Genevieve Ferguson, Pamela J Mosher, Sarah Bonato, Sophie Soklaridis

“…<h4>Introduction</h4>Medical education experts argue that grief support training for physicians would improve physician and patient and family wellness, and should therefore be mandatory. …”
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An online intelligent electronic medical record system via speech recognition by Xin Xia, Yunlong Ma, Ye Luo, Jianwei Lu

“…Traditional electronic medical record systems in hospitals rely on healthcare workers to manually enter patient information, resulting in healthcare workers having to spend a significant amount of time each day filling out electronic medical records. …”
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