Croatian medical journal
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Croatian medical journal · Apr 2002
Current health care system policy for vulnerability reduction in the United States of America: a personal perspective.
To raise questions about how the United States of America, which spends 1.3 trillion dollars on health care, conducts cutting-edge biomedical research, has the most advanced medical technology, and trains a cadre of highly competent health professionals cares for the most vulnerable members of its population. ⋯ Since American medicine, despite all of its science, technology, and clinical competence, operates in a non-system, there is currently no efficacious approach to vulnerability reduction. To turn health care in the U.S. into a high quality, comprehensive, and cost-effective system, government officials, health care planners, and medical practitioners must address a series of fundamental social, economic, and political issues. What other countries, like those in South Eastern Europe, can learn from this is not to duplicate these mistakes.
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Croatian medical journal · Feb 2002
What do medical students want from their professional and private life?
To analyze medical students wishes regarding their professional and private life and whether their wishes change over the years of medical studies. ⋯ The wishes of medical students over the six years of studies proved to be remarkably stable and related to personal achievement, knowledge, and altruism.
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Croatian medical journal · Feb 2002
Knowledge about and attitude towards science of first year medical students.
To assess the knowledge about and attitude towards science of students entering medical school, and to find out whether these parameters are influenced by their high school education, sex, place of residence, and rank achieved on the admission test. ⋯ In Croatia, first-year medical students are not familiar with basic facts about the scientific methods and communication in medicine, but they have positive attitude towards scientific research. The only factor associated with more positive attitude towards science is higher rank at the admission test.
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Croatian medical journal · Dec 2001
Case ReportsHealing of skin necrosis and regression of anticardiolipin antibodies achieved by parathyroidectomy in a dialyzed woman with calcific uremic arteriolopathy.
To present the impact of parathyroidectomy on the spontaneous healing of necrotic lesions of the skin of the lower leg and on anticardiolipin antibodies regression in a 68-year-old female dialyzed patient with hyperparathyroidism and calcific-uremic arteriolopathy (CUA). ⋯ Regression of anticardiolipin antibodies, normalization of Ca x P product, and healing of the skin lesions after parathyroidectomy all pointed to the elevated PTH level as a crucial factor in the pathogenesis of CUA.
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Croatian medical journal · Oct 2001
Appointment of statistical editor and quality of statistics in a small medical journal.
To test if the appointment of a statistical editor improves the quality of manuscripts published in a small general medical journal. ⋯ Appointment of a statistical editor is not a guarantee of improvement of statistics in small journals. Other measures are necessary, including strict editorial policy on statistical review, monitoring of revised manuscript versions, and enrollment of formally trained biostatisticians.