Reducing risk and enhancing education: U.S. medical students on global health electives.

This study assessed the impact of several interventions, including predeparture simulation training and procedure logs, on incidence needlestick injuries (NSIs) among U.S. medical students on global health (GH) elective in Botswana.

[Ethical conflicts in involuntary treatment of schizophrenic patients; decision-making and in influential factors in three prototype cases].

Three case reports of patients with schizophrenia were presented to a sample of 520 persons (25.1% psychiatrists, 3.7% psychologists, 8.

Predicting completion of a cognitive-behavioral pain management program by initial measures of a chronic pain patient' s readiness for change.

Objective: There is a need to identify pretreatment patient indicators, which are predictive of the successful enrollment and completion of chronic pain treatment programs. Recent evidence suggests the Pain Stages of Change Questionnaire can predict enrollment and completion of a 10-session cognitive-behavioral pain management program. The purpose of this study is to determine whether the pretreatment Stages of Change Questionnaire can predict patients who would complete a cognitive-behavioral pain treatment program.