Lower Extremity Nerve Conduction Abnormalities in Vietnamese Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: A Cross-Sectional Study on Peripheral Neuropathy and Its Correlation with Glycemic Control and Renal Function.

Peripheral neuropathy is a common complication of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) that results in nerve conduction abnormalities. This study aimed to investigate the parameters of nerve conduction in lower extremities among T2DM patients in Vietnam. A cross-sectional study was conducted on 61 T2DM patients aged 18 years and older, diagnosed according to the American Diabetes Association's criteria.

The prime questions in authentic patient's consultations: a call for additional research on current and new paradigms.

Although the 3 prime questions ("What did your doctor tell you the medication is for?" "How did your doctor tell you to take the medication?," and "What did your doctor tell you to expect?") have been recommended as a way to implement an interactive approach to patient's counseling in pharmacy, research examining how these questions are actually used in practice is relatively sparse. Qualitative approaches might assist to inform pertinent questions that might challenge prevailing paradigms. This commentary calls for a close look at how novice pharmacists in training manage these questions in real-life patient's consultations.

Constructing 'expertness': a novice pharmacist's development of interactional competence in patient consultations.

It has been argued that being able to utilize expertise in discourse is as important as having expertise (C. Candlin and S. Candlin 2002).