Health care professionals' and students' attitude toward collaboration between pharmacists and physicians in Croatia.

Background: As traditional roles of pharmacists and physicians seem nowadays insufficient to ensure patient safety and therapy effectiveness, interprofessional collaboration has been suggested to improve health outcomes.

Objective: To assess and compare the attitudes of physicians and pharmacists, as well as medical and pharmacy students in Croatia, toward interprofessional collaboration in primary health care.

Methods: The study included 513 pharmacists and physicians, and 365 students of pharmacy and medicine from Croatia.

Physicians' attitudes about interprofessional treatment of chronic pain: family physicians are considered the most important collaborators.

Aims And Objectives: Interprofessional collaboration is the process in which different professional groups work together to positively impact health care. We aimed to explore physicians' attitudes toward interprofessional collaboration in the context of chronic pain management with the implication that if attitudes are not positive, appropriate interventions could be developed.

Design: A quantitative attitudes study.

Identification of general characteristics, motivation, and satisfaction of internet-based medical consultation service users in Croatia.

Aim: To identify users' reasons to look for physician consultation on the internet instead of visiting a physician and to explore their general characteristics, motivation, and satisfaction with internet medical consultation service 'Your Questions.'

Methods: Users of a free internet medical consultation service 'Your Questions' (www.plivazdravlje.

Increased demand for E-mail health consultation service: analysis of a Web survey.

The aim of the study was to explore characteristics of the users of the Interactive Service "Your Questions" that is based on E-mail health consultations. We wanted to find out what motivated users to use it, were they satisfied with it and what were its impacts on their health behavior. Therefore, we developed a Web survey and invited 2,747 users to take part in it.

Moraxella lacunata: a rare cause of infective endocarditis.

We describe the first case of Moraxella lacunata definite native valve endocarditis in a patient with previously normal mitral valves. The disease was complicated with embolizations of the brain and spleen. After 6 weeks of antimicrobial treatment, valvular replacement was performed.