Croatian medical journal
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Croatian medical journal · Jun 2008
Scaling-up undergraduate medical education: enabling virtual mobility by online elective courses.
To evaluate online elective courses at Croatian medical schools with respect to the virtual mobility of national teachers and students and virtual team collaboration. ⋯ Elective e-courses may be a successful model of how faculty and students at higher education institutions can collaborate and integrate e-learning into their current curricula.
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Croatian medical journal · Jun 2008
Reducing bias from test misclassification in burden of disease studies: use of test to actual positive ratio--new test parameter.
To address the problem of estimating disease frequency identified by a diagnostic test, which may not represent the actual number of persons with disease in a community, but rather the number of persons who tested positive. Those two values may be very different, their relationship depending on the properties of the diagnostic test applied and true prevalence of the disease in a population. ⋯ Optimal screening test characteristics for use in a population-based survey are likely to be different to those when the test is used in a clinical setting. Calibrating the test a priori to bring the TAP ratio closer to unity deals with the possible large bias in disease burden estimates based on application of diagnostic (screening) test.
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Croatian medical journal · Jun 2008
Influence of urbanization level and gross domestic product of counties in Croatia on access to health care.
To examine the association of counties' urbanization level and gross domestic product (GDP) per capita on the access to health care. ⋯ The lack of physicians, especially in primary health care can lead to a reduced access to health care and increased workload of physicians, predominantly in rural counties, regardless of the counties' GDP.
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Croatian medical journal · Jun 2008
Factors affecting choice of specialty among first-year medical students of four universities in different regions of Turkey.
To determine the factors affecting medical students' choice of the specialty of family medicine. ⋯ Prestige, money, and personal development are important factors in career decision-making among medical students in Turkey. This should be taken into consideration when conducting reforms at the primary level.