In December I crammed for and took Step 3 of the boards, my second board experience while being pregnant. I felt complete unprepared and left feeling like I had surely failed, but learned later that I passed with flying colors, one more test to put behind me. I had planned my first OB...
Video-DOT for TB treatment patient-oriented, cost-savingNo Abstract available for this article.doi:10.1007/s40274-015-2007-zNoneSpringer International PublishingPharmacoEconomics & Outcomes News
These results are noteworthy in that they were achieved with a relatively low-cost intervention, used the patient as the agent of change, and can be used for other conditions and treatments. First, the creation of the risk assessment letter was customized based on information extracted from the...
2,26 The first objective of this study was to evaluate the association between participation in PPC and patients’ perception of whether their care was more focused on their health goals and less burdensome compared with care before PPC and with the perceptions of patients who received usual ...
Funding and resources for research on rare diseases are limited. However, this review represents a first step to mitigate data paucity through the identification of specific research gaps within OI. Based on these gaps we have designed and conducted an online-based survey targeted at individuals wit...
The objective of the first stage of this research was to review and describe the symptoms and impact concepts of SLE from the patient’s perspective by means of a conceptual model. This included an overview of the economic burden of SLE. Based on development of the conceptual model, the ...
First, we analyzed Level 1 (see Fig. 1), which pertains to the importance of high-order components of Benevolence, Reciprocity, and Trust, in the formation of the patient–physician trusting relationship. The analysis shows that according to the two methods of analysis, Trust was considered ...
First, the sample analysed in this study was limited to participants from Dalian. This sample limits our ability to generalize findings to other regional groups. The problem of trust towards a doctor is not limited to patients with TB, and patients with other diseases also experience the same ...
First, we were not able to examine all factors previous research has indicated as influencing depression prognosis (ie, duration of symptoms, number of previous episodes, or comorbidities). In an effort to retain as many observations as possible, we focused on commonly reported variables across ...
First, we repeated analyses using total spending (sum of Part A and B spending) instead of Part B spending, to test whether our findings were sensitive to how we defined physician spending. Second, to evaluate whether our findings were sensitive to how we attributed patients to physicians, we...