The focus groups with multimorbid patients and their GPs yielded seven themes of reasons for disagreement regarding illnesses between patients and their GPs.
In recounting the tale of his fictional namesake Mr. Phillips does a clever job of orchestrating well-known Shakespearian themes, like the contingency of reason and love; the rift between appearance and reality; and twins and doubles and confused identities.
Its catchy title, with its echo of Allan Bloom's "Closing of the American Mind," is misleading, since it is only in the last couple of chapters that Freeman engages directly with his declared theme of the decline of reason.
Students discussed a variety of themes, including reasons for specialization, impressions of postgraduate training in Malawi, factors in deciding on location of training and recommendations to improve training in Malawi.
These themes and the number of reasons coded within each theme are displayed in table 1.
Spanning a wide variety of mediums including music, installation, film, and painting, Biggers discussed the reasons for tackling themes of race and identity in so many formats.
Once all of the codes were finalized, the reasons for abortion were analyzed quantitatively using Stata Version 12. Multivariable mixed effects logistic regression was used to assess the characteristics associated with having higher odds of reporting each of the major themes as a reason for seeking abortion.
The theme 'surgery' (11.5% of reasons given) refers to the patient being in the perioperative period or undergoing a specific surgical procedure where it was thought that prescribing enoxaparin was not appropriate.
Both coders then independently grouped the codes into themes, agreed a final list of themes, and then independently recoded each reason into one of the agreed themes, 35 reasons were coded into two themes.
One reason is the multiethnic, semi-ghetto culture of the banlieues, where themes of exclusion, drugs and violence that inspired American rap find an echo.
