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Background. Almost 4 million U.S. women will have abnormal Pap tests this year, yet rates for follow-up care are not ideal. Patient-provider communication about abnormal results influences women's understanding of abnormal results and whether women return for timely follow-up ca…

Literature suggests that nurses and nursing students are ineffective communicators and that patients are dissatisfied with interpersonal relationships in clinical settings. Poor communication may lead to various negative consequences for both patients and nurses. The purpose of …

In Bangladesh, where health care is constitutionally considered as a 'basic right' of the people and public hospitals provide most of the inpatient care, little attention has been paid to the burgeoning private inpatient medical care sector and its performance. As the number of …

This study examines the role the first cohorts of women physicians in the United States played in shaping the medical subfields of obstetrics and gynecology. Women were trained largely to provide clinical care for women patients in the mid- to late- nineteenth century, yet they …