Specialties, Medical - Methods
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Ambulatory care provided by office-based specialists in the United States.

27 Feb 2009 PURPOSE: Increasing use of specialist services in the United States is leading to a perception of a specialist shortage. Little is known, however, about the nature of care provided by this secondary level of services. The aim of this study was to ... Read more...

Intensive language training in the rehabilitation of chronic aphasia: efficient training by laypersons.

30 Aug 2007 Intense language training has been found to be more efficient in the rehabilitation of chronic aphasia than treatment spread across time. Intense treatment, however, challenges personnel and financial resources of the health care system. The present ... Read more...

Which doctors and with what problems contact a specialist service for doctors? A cross sectional investigation.

26 Aug 2007 BACKGROUND: In the United Kingdom, specialist treatment and intervention services for doctors are underdeveloped. The MedNet programme, created in 1997 and funded by the London Deanery, aims to fill this gap by providing a self-referral, ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Specialties, Medical - Methods'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Improving training in nephrology procedures: yes we can. 29 Jun 2009
• Training in neurology. 3 May 2009
• Ambulatory care provided by office-based specialists in the United States. 27 Feb 2009
• Profiles in volunteerism from India to Peru as a neurosurgeon volunteer. 7 Jul 2008
• DOs need to define value of osteopathic medicine. 29 Jun 2008
• Emerging subspecialties: neurorehabilitation: training neurologists to retrain the brain. 13 Apr 2008
• Ghost management: how much of the medical literature is shaped behind the scenes by the pharmaceutical industry? 30 Aug 2007
• Intensive language training in the rehabilitation of chronic aphasia: efficient training by laypersons. 30 Aug 2007
• Which doctors and with what problems contact a specialist service for doctors? A cross sectional investigation. 26 Aug 2007
• Mortality in peripheral arterial disease: a comparison of patients managed by vascular specialists and general practitioners. 11 Mar 2007
• Physicians and drug representatives: exploring the dynamics of the relationship. 30 Jan 2007
• Navigating a crossroads. 30 Jan 2007
• Subspecialty certification in urology: a European perspective. 29 Nov 2006
• Outcome of one-year of specialist care of patients with type 2 diabetes: a multi-center prospective survey (JDDM 2). 30 May 2006
• Scleroderma treatment differs between experts and general rheumatologists. 13 Feb 2006
• Distinguishing among prolonged, recurrent, and periodic fever syndromes: approach of a pediatric infectious diseases subspecialist. 30 May 2005
• Clinical epidemiology of transfusion medicine. 30 Jan 2005
• [Practical social medicine and rehabilitation--on the development and challenges of a specialty department] 30 Jan 2005
• Usefulness of pain drawings in identifying real or imagined pain: accuracy of pain professionals, nonprofessionals, and a decision model. 30 Oct 2004
• Headache management for the pain specialist. 30 Aug 2004

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Technical information about 'Specialties, Medical'

Definition: Various branches of medical practice limited to specialized areas.

Descriptor UI: D013040

Alternative terms: Specialties, Medical; Medical Specialty; Specialities, Medical; Medical Specialties; Specialty, Medical; Medical Specialities; Medical Speciality; Speciality, Medical;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; education; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: H02.403.776;

History Note: 68

Technical Notes: SPEC: SPEC qualif; coord IM with field or subject (IM); with biog: Manual 32.16.9, 34.4; policy: Manual 28.5, 28.7; DF: SPECIALTIES MED