OBJECTIVES To report the long-term results of 72 consecutive patients treated with Radiesse (BioForm Inc, Franksville, Wis) and 29 patients treated with Radiesse and Restylane (Q-Medical, Uppsala, Sweden) and to share recommendations based on our experience. METHODS A total of 72 patients were treated with Radiesse between October 2003 and December 2004. Of these patients, 29 also received Re...

Higher Education (HE), once the prerogative of a tiny elite, is now accessible to larger numbers of people around the world than ever before yet despite the fact that an understanding of student satisfaction has never been more important for today's universities, the concept remains poorly understood. Here we use published data from the UK's National Student Survey (NSS), representing data from...

BACKGROUND People with cancer are increasingly turning to the Internet for health-related information. OBJECTIVE To compare the patterns of Internet use of people with skin cancer with previous findings by including people with nonmelanoma skin cancer (NMSC) using a comprehensive survey. To evaluate perceived anxiety levels and overall satisfaction after searching the Internet of people with ...

To improve today’s multimedia retrieval tools and thus the overall satisfaction of a user, it is necessary to develop methods that are able to support the user in the retrieval process, e.g. by providing not only additional information about the search results as well as the data collection itself, but also by adapting the retrieval tool to the underlying data as well as to the user’s needs and...

BACKGROUND Patient satisfaction has become an important component of quality improvement in ambulatory anesthesia services. However, it is difficult to measure due to its subjective and complex psychological construct. Psychometric methodology has been successfully used to evaluate this outcome. The authors conducted a systematic review to evaluate questionnaires to measure patient satisfaction...

This study, for the first time, attempts to explore the factors affecting tourist satisfaction with a theatrical performance, The Romance of the Song Dynasty in Hangzhou, China. Four factors are identified to have affected tourist satisfaction: “Performance,” “Venue Environment,” “Service,” and “Stage Facilities”. These theatrical performance factors are examined to assess the relative influenc...

Aggregating preference and recommending a common set of items for a group has become a challenging topic in recommender systems and social web sites. This issue is mainly concerned with eliciting individual users’ preferences, suggesting the maximized overall satisfaction outcome for all users and ensuring that the aggregation mechanism is resistant to manipulation. In the following we survey p...

BACKGROUND There is a growing recognition of the importance of patient experience in healthcare, however little is known in the context of emergency abdominal surgery. This study sought to quantify the association between patient experience and overall satisfaction. METHODS Patient demographics, operation details and 30-day clinical outcome data of consecutive patients undergoing emergency ab...

BACKGROUND Quality improvement initiatives have expanded recently within the healthcare sector. Studies have shown that less than 40% of these initiatives are successful, indicating the need for an instrument that can measure the progress and results of quality improvement initiatives and answer questions about how quality initiatives are conducted. The aim of the present study was to develop a...