PurposeTo explore the stigma of obesity and its effect on health care utilization, associations between self‐esteem, attribution for weight, body mass index (BMI), satisfaction with medical care and the behavior of delaying/avoiding health care were examined.Data SourcesA convenience sample of...... hiện toàn bộ
Cody R. Charlton, Karen Dearing, Judith A. Berry, Mary Jayne Johnson
AbstractPurpose: The purpose of this review was to examine the published research from 1999 to 2005 describing nurse practitioner (NP)–patient interactions and to determine the best practice to enhance patient outcomes.Data sources: Databases searched included Academic Search Elite, Cumulative Index t...... hiện toàn bộ
Daisha J. Cipher, Roderick S. Hooker, Patricia Montoya Guerra
AbstractPurpose: As an important step in analyzing the role of nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs), we examined their prescribing behavior. The intent is to study the characteristics of providers and patients, and the type of prescriptions written by NPs and PAs in primary care and to compare these activities to physicia...... hiện toàn bộ
Richard Canderelli, Lisa A. Leccesse, Nancy L. Miller, Janice Unruh Davidson
AbstractPurpose: To provide an overview of current research regarding hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and to assist healthcare providers to better educate patients about potential benefits of this therapy.Data sources: A systematic review of healthcare literature was conducted with 602 articles sele...... hiện toàn bộ
Corazon B. Cajulis, Joyce J. Fitzpatrick, Ruth Kleinpell
AbstractPurpose: The purpose of this descriptive study was to determine the level of autonomy of nurse practitioners (NPs) providing care to an adult patient population in an acute care setting.Data sources: Data were collected from 54 NPs in different specialty areas currently working in a large metr...... hiện toàn bộ
AbstractPurpose: To heighten awareness of the problems related to the high prevalence of suboptimal vitamin D status in hospitalized patients and the general population, including an overview of vitamin D biology, how vitamin D status is defined, the negative health issues associated with suboptimal vitamin D status, indications for treatmen...... hiện toàn bộ
Sharon A. Watts, Barbara Daly, Mary K. Anthony, Patricia McDonald, Allan Khoury, Wendy Dahar
PurposeTo determine if age, gender, risk level and glucosylated hemoglobin could predict foot amputations in HMO patients with diabetes.Data SourcesA retrospective chart review of a non‐random sample of 27 patients with amputation and 110 randomly selected patients without amputation during th...... hiện toàn bộ