What matters while assessing quality of social services? Stakeholders’ perspective in Czechia

Bone quality: understanding what matters.

Assessing competence for reentry: what matters most?

16 July 2013 T he Association of American Medical Colleges reports a current shortage of physicians in the United States which is projected to be greater than 90,000 by the year 2020.1 The most recent analysis specific to anesthesiology, which utilized 2007 data, projects a shortage of more than 4,400 anesthesiologists by the year 2020.‡ Without doubt the healthcare landscape has changed over t...

What matters to the patient is what really matters: 
quality in oncology nursing.

Reflecting on the 40th anniversary of the Oncology Nursing Society led me to recall my own 30-plus years in nursing and how, as a new graduate nurse, almost all oncology care was delivered in the inpatient setting. In my first few years of practice, I mixed my patients' chemotherapy in a medicine room without a ventilated hood and administered those medications without personal protective equip...

Identifying the Factors Effecting on Assessing the Quality of Educational Services in Education

Purpose: Considering the role of quality of educational services in the growth and development of society, the present study was conducted to the aim of identifying the factors effecting on assessing the quality of educational services in education. Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation was qualitative. The research community included documents ...

Assessing medical student cultural competence: what really matters

OBJECTIVES The study aimed to explore medical students' attitudes and beliefs toward Latino patients, specifically: to assess students' levels of knowledge, cultural competence, and comfort with Latinos; to determine students' exposure to and previous experience with Latinos; and to evaluate whether factors such as study abroad, living abroad, previous clinical experience with Latinos, and lang...