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Future directions
(Elsevier, 1992-06)
In this final paper, we summarise briefly the principal conclusions to emerge from the conference. We also review possible future directions in the light of the contributions of different authors and discussions at the ...
Factors Affecting Students' Use of MEDLINE
(Elsevier, 1993-12)
MEDLINE search transcripts by a class of third-year medical students were analyzed. The 184 students were divided into three groups according to their search experience in terms of the number of sessions logged at the time ...
The psychologist's role in assessing and facilitating patients' knowledge of advance directives in medical settings: A preliminary investigation
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1996-06)
In a time of budgetary shortfalls in the medical industry, an aging population, and an increased emphasis on health care choices, psychologists are being called upon to administer advance medical directive programs to ...
Diagnosis and Assessment of Depression and Suicidality Using the NIMH Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children (DISC-2.3)
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1997-06)
The Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children (DISC-2.3) was studied in a sample of 265 adolescent inpatients to determine type and concurrent validity of depressive symptoms and depressive disorder diagnoses for different ...
Growth of private medicine in Sweden: The new diversity and the new challenge
(Elsevier, 1992-06)
The growth of private medical care in Sweden has occurred despite the lack of overt encouragement by the long-term Social Democrat government. This can be documented from official government statistics, private insurance ...
Guaranteed renewability in insurance
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1995-03)
We propose a guaranteed renewability (GR) insurance in which a sequence of premiums would enable insurers to break even and would be chosen by both low- and high-risk buyers, whether or not they had suffered a loss. The ...
The reliability of a hypothesis generation and testing task
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1990-11)
The purpose of this paper is to present results of initial experience with a clinical reasoning task which assesses two clearly defined aspects of clinical problem solving. Fourteen senior and 40 junior medical students ...
Self-Management of Heart Disease by Older Adults
(Sage Publications, 1997)
A randomized, controlled trial involving 636 older individuals was conducted to evaluate an intervention to enhance self-management of heart disease. Program participants experienced less impact of illness on their ...
Learning, retention and recall of clinical information
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1992-11)
A representative group of 33 medical students who were entering the junior year clerkships was tested for retention and recall of clinical information 3 months after taking an examination on the same subject. The students ...