This article presents data from a 2009 survey of 1,891 practicing physicians nationwide. The survey assessed how widely physicians endorse and follow the Charter on Medical Professionalism's principles on openness and honesty in physicians' communication with patients. Overall, approximately...

One in 10 physicians has no plans to adopt an electronic health record. These physicians were older; in small, isolated practices; and were not participating in other delivery system or payment reform efforts.

This paper derives a universal approximation result for theminimum fuzzy implication rule as well as a differentiable substitute function that allows fast optimization and function approximation with neuro-fuzzy networks.

Background: Economic theory strongly suggests that better information about the quality of care affects patients’ choice of health service providers. However, we have little empirical evidence about the impact of information provided on provider’s choice in Germany. Problem: In Germany, we...

Since their beginning, human beings had started to harass environment so that they have turned into a real danger for environment during the last century. On the one hand, man extracted out of environment a large amount of hardly regenerating resources implying its gradual impoverishment; on the...

Background: While much is known about the association between drug regimen complexity and drug adherence, little is known about how this association is affected by patient depression. Objective: To examine whether the relationship between medication adherence and highly active antiretroviral...

Background: Standards, benchmarking, and audits are integral to quality monitoring in health and social service provision. Recent policy in the UK National Health Service dictating the need for increased consumer involvement necessitates that service users have significant input into the...