Eighty mothers whose children had measles in the past month were interviewed for beliefs and practices related to the management of measles and measles associated diarrhoea. Beliefs and practices about diarrhoea, associated with measles are described. Diarrhoea during and after measles was considered beneficial by mothers, who believed it helped ...

Twenty patients presenting with chronic ill-defined illnesses in a rural practice were investigated virologically. The only positive finding was the detection of elevated Coxsackie B titres in 16 of these patients. Three had experienced mainly cardiovascular symptoms; the remaining 13 are thought to have suffered from myalgic encephalomyelitis. This is ...

Injuries in a rural practice were studied for a five-year period. Nine hundred and sixty-five incidences of injury were recorded in a population averaging 1,308 patients. There were complete records for 894 patients; the remaining 71 had left the practice. Eighty-six per cent of cases were managed entirely in the ...

In order to assist beginners in microsurgery in practicing microvascular suturing without the use of an animal model, we devised an apparatus composed of a Lucite disc with Lucite cylinders attached to either side. On the one side, a piece of rubber glove can be attached for practice of either ...

This paper examines the experience of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Rural Practice Project (RPP), a major non-governmental effort in the last decade concentrating on the direct delivery of rural health services. The nine RPP sites started prior to 1977 showed a slow but steady increase in their utilization levels ...

The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of selected individual and background characteristics and values of physician assistant (PA) graduates on practice location. Information was gathered through a survey of graduates practicing as physician assistants from the first four classes of the University of Kentucky's Clinical Associate ...

Night calls attended by one doctor during five consecutive years (1973 to 1977) in a single-handed rural practice, were analysed and divided into two categories: (a) reasonable; (b) unreasonable. Half the night calls were genuine emergencies but 17 per cent were quite unnecessary.

A cutting needleholder has been designed for microsurgery. After a little practice, the surgeon will find that the advantages of this instrument outweigh some disadvantages.

For various reasons we were faced with the choice of carrying out total parenteral nutrition of a patient at home, or allowing him to die untreated.The logistic problems of organizing supplies and technical support in a rural practice 32 km (20 miles) from the nearest hospital are described, in the ...

The experience of residents in family medicine at McMaster University is compared with that of vocational trainees in the West of Scotland, by means of a time-log diary used for two weeks towards the end of their fulltime attachment in family practice. Trainees in the West of Scotland see far ...

A Sioux medicine man spent a long professional life as a "primary care" rural indigenous practitioner. He was treated, against his wishes, in a modern hospital for his own last illness. His description of that experience and of his non-Western medical practice emphasizes persisting problems in the humanistic aspects of ...

In view of the continuing maldistribution of medical manpower, this study was undertaken in order to delineate the backgrounds and motivating factors influencing choice of practice by rural practitioners in Queensland. Of those doctors in rural practice 38% had spent more than 10 years of their childhood in a rural ...

An inquiry was conducted into the type of practice (whether solo, group or salaried) entered by young physicians graduating from Canadian medical schools in 1970. Twenty-one percent entered solo practice, 57% joined a group practice or partnership, and 22% became salaried physicians in a number of different categories. Surgeons and ...

An analysis of more than 25 000 prescription items dispensed between January and May 1976 in a rural town (Ashburton) and a city (Dunedin) has indicated that one item out of every eight written in general practice is for a psychiatric symptom, and that of these psychotherapeutic agents, almost three ...

Attitudes toward the urban environment and place of origin were found to be the best predictors of an optometrist's practice location. When urbanism attitude and origin were scaled and placed in an equation to predict practice location, identification of an optometrist's practice location as rural or urban was highly accurate. ...

A first step toward the goal of better optometric manpower distribution is the identification of variables associated with the optometrist's choice of practice location. This study focuses on the optometrist who chooses a rural practice location and on ways in which the rural optometrist differs from the non-rural optometrist. One ...

After prolonged practice (1300 10 sec. trials) the tapping speed of the nonpreferred hand reached that of the preferred hand on a simple finger-tapping task. Analysis of the intertrap intervals showed the variability of the duration of intertrap intervals was smaller for the preferred than for the nonpreferred hand, the ...

Rural optometrists were found to differ from urban optometrists in background, environmental attitude, and interest patterns. Attitude toward the urban environment and place of origin were the best predictors of an optometrist's practice location. When "urbanism" and "origin" were scaled and placed in a multiple regression equation to predict practice ...

For the purposes of medical practice, a ;rural setting' implies an environment with little or no facilities for the sophisticated laboratory investigations that may be needed for the diagnosis of certain endocrine disorders. Fortunately, however, most of the commoner endocrine disorders may be diagnosed from the patient's history and a ...

A questionnaire study of Yugoslav general practitioners was undertaken to document reasons for the unpopularity of rural practice and to characterize better the GPs who do choose rural practice. Responses indicated that rural GPs were significantly more overworked, had less opportunity for continuing education, had poorer medical facilities, and had ...

Cytological preparations from the conjunctiva of schoolchildren were examined by Giemsa staining and by an indirect fluorescent antibody (FA) technique. In addition, chlamydial group-specific antibodies in sera were measured with the complement fixation (CF) test. It has consistently been shown that the FA technique is more sensitive than Giemsa staining ...

Over 26 years some 73 patients with schizophrenia were observed. Three types were considered, true schizophrenia, schizophrenia simplex, and schizoaffective disorders. Of those traced and alive in 1971, some 18% of the group had recovered, 46% had made a social recovery, 25% were unemployed in the community, and 11% were ...

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--West Virginia University, 2003.

The Rural Practice Group is one of the Clinical Network Groups of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP). It was founded in 1993 to raise the profile of rural medicine in the United Kingdom through education, research and the dissemination of good practice in rural health care. The page ...

In a six-year retrospective audit of 405 obstetric cases managed in a small rural Saskatchewan hospital, it was demonstrated that proper patient selection leads to excellent outcomes. The standards of practice were shown to be concordant with similar practices in the United Kingdom and the United States.

Rural family practice offers a wealth of potential clinical teaching material for family practice residents. In order to exploit this potential, the Department of Family Practice at the University of British Columbia has developed a community-based program in which second-year residents in family practice spend the year in rural communities ...

Provided by the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Cooperative Extension Service, this site comprises a collection of articles and fact sheets on forest management and stewardship and covers logging, marketing timber, alternative forest land uses, ecosystem management and the uses and limitations of soil surveys for ...

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