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Knowledge and Attitude toward Hospice Palliative Care among Community-Dwelling Aged Taiwanese—Analysis of Related Factors

open access: yesInternational Journal of Gerontology, 2012
Background: This study was conducted to investigate the knowledge and attitude toward hospice palliative care (HPC) among the elderly, defined as 65 years of age and older, living in the metropolitan area of Taiwan.
Ching-Ping Hsu   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Family and Physicians' Views of Surrogate Decision-Making: The Roles and How to Choose

open access: yes, 1996
Physicians and family members were compared on the roles played in surrogate decision-making and their views as to how choices should be made by surrogate decision-makers.
Silberfeld, Michel   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Epigenetic blind spots – the role of DNA methylation dynamics in stem cell‐based models of embryogenesis

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Embryo‐like structures (stembryos) are an innovative tool, but they are hindered by experimental variability and limited developmental potential. DNA methylation is crucial for mammalian development, but its status in stembryo models is poorly characterized.
Sara Canil   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Investment in family medicine to improve health outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa

open access: yesAfrican Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine
Family physicians (FPs), as educators, capacity builders and clinical governance leaders of primary care (PC) teams, work to make them more effective and responsive to the needs of their patients.
Sunanda C. Ray   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

National Health Insurance – a Bill too far?

open access: yesSouth African Family Practice, 2019
No abstract available.
Bob Mash
doaj   +1 more source

The pearls and pitfalls of setting high-quality multiple choice questions for clinical medicine

open access: yesSouth African Family Practice, 2023
Multiple choice question (MCQ) examinations have become extremely popular for testing applied knowledge in the basic and clinical sciences. When setting MCQ examinations, assessors need to understand the measures that improve validity and reliability so ...
Mergan Naidoo
doaj   +1 more source

Septin 9 PB domains coordinate centrosome positioning and microtubule acetylation to control epithelial polarity

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Septin 9 polybasic domains couple phosphoinositide‐rich membrane binding to centrosome positioning, Golgi organization, and microtubule acetylation to control epithelial polarity. Their loss disrupts this axis, causing centrosome mispositioning, Golgi fragmentation, reduced microtubule acetylation, and polarity inversion via upregulation of the ...
Ting ting Cai   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Doctors’ experiences when treating doctor–patients: a scoping review

open access: yesBJGP Open, 2023
Background: To work effectively, doctors need to look after themselves. They often delay seeking medical care for a range of reasons. Once they do, there is evidence that the doctors treating them (’treating doctors’) can struggle to provide optimal ...
Claire J Hutton   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Modulation of Homer1 EVH1 domain internal dynamics by putative autism‐associated mutations

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
The putative autism‐associated M65I and S97L variants of the EVH1 domain of the postsynaptic scaffold protein Homer1 do not exhibit substantial changes in their overall structure or partner binding. Both of them, but especially the M65I variant, show altered internal dynamics relative to the wild‐type domain on the μs‐ms timescale, indicated by the ...
Fanni Farkas   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Association Between Sleep Duration and Health Outcome in Elderly Taiwanese

open access: yesInternational Journal of Gerontology, 2011
Background: The aim was to assess the relationship between sleep duration and self-rated health outcome in the elderly Taiwanese. Methods: The data were drawn from the National Survey on Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Health Promotion 2002 (HPKAP ...
Meng-Ting Tsou
doaj   +1 more source

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