Background: One potential psychological construct, grit, may help to explain the non-cognitive
traits that account for both rural physician satisfaction and retention. We investigated (1) …

Context: Scope of practice is an important factor in both training and recruiting rural family
physicians. Purpose: To assess rural Idaho family physicians’ scope of practice and to …

Community factors of varied importance help determine the success of achieving and
maintaining a physician workforce. The purpose of this study was to develop an evaluation …

Description Functions to calculate student growth percentiles and percentile growth
projections/trajectories for students using large scale, longitudinal assessment data. Functions use …

Idaho currently experiences challenges in recruiting and retaining family physicians in rural
areas. Phase I of the Rural Family Physician Workforce Study found that Idaho family …

Community factors play a key role in the recruitment and retention of physicians. While prior
workforce studies often investigated characteristics of the candidate-physician, the initial …

Collagen disorders are chronic autoimmune diseases with a complex clinical course; however,
the risk of breast cancer in patients with collagen disorders remains unclear. The present …

Tumor budding grade is a very useful histological prognostic indicator for colorectal cancer
patients. Recently, it has been also reported as a significant prognostic indicator in invasive …

Vimentin is a stable mesenchymal immunohistochemical marker and is widely recognized
as a major marker of mesenchymal tumors. The purpose of the present study was to …

Background Eribulin, a nontaxane synthetic inhibitor of microtubule dynamics, is widely used
to manage Metastatic breast cancer (MBC). The presence of a high neutrophil-and platelet-…