Background Treatment satisfaction and medication adherence can be improved if physicians carefully monitor the situations, check the level of difficulties patients experience when taking medications at specific times, and readjust medication regimens based on this information. However, physicians in Japan encounter difficulties in taking enough time to collect this information in clinical pract...

Background: Satisfaction with various services is determined by the extent to which service providers provide best for their consumers, including health at puskesmas. Puskesmas as a first-level facility should satisfactory visitors. Satisfactory can lead loyalty visitors, thereby reducing use of illegal that endanger health. During this Covid-19 pandemic, puskesmas have differed in several proc...

Comprehensive holistic health services are a form of improving the quality by measuring IKM. The result survey BPJS Kesehatan is that IKM has not reached targeted satisfaction in 2016 and 2017. Public Health Center X an index value exceeds existing target, but lower than 2016. This study will analyze decrease participants towards First-Level Healthcare Facilities (FKTP). Then low getting their ...

BACKGROUND One of the most important indexes of the health care quality is patient's satisfaction and it takes place only when there is a process based on management. One of these processes in the health care organizations is the appropriate management of the waiting time process. The aim of this study is the systematic analyzing of the outpatient waiting time. METHODS This descriptive cross ...

This study aimed to evaluate health related quality of life (HRQL) and spiritual well-being (SWB) of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and to investigate the relationship between HRQOL and SWB. Seventy outpatients with COPD were interviewed using Portuguese versions of the Seattle Obstructive Lung Disease Questionnaire (SOLDQ) and Spiritual Well-Being Scale (SWBS). SOLD...

UNLABELLED This study investigates patients' expectations and perceptions of service quality in public dental health care and measures their "satisfaction gap." This descriptive study involved 481 dental outpatients in Kelantan, Malaysia. A modified SERVQUAL 20-item instrument was used to assess patients' expectations before and perceptions after receiving dental treatment. The "satisfaction ga...

OBJECTIVE We retrospectively analyzed the safety, cost effectiveness, and patient acceptance of outpatient high-dose 131I treatment for thyroid cancer at our hospital since 1997, when the Nuclear Regulatory Commission began allowing high-dose outpatient therapy with radioiodine. METHODS Forty-eight patients were treated as outpatients because their living conditions were acceptable and they w...

Background The quality of life (QoL) is a multidimensional view that represents all aspects of patient well-being in various areas of patient life. Specific coping strategies may be connected to both the QoL and the severity of mental disorder. The aim of this investigation was to examine the relationship between the QoL and the coping strategies of outpatients with a depressive disorder. Met...

OBJECTIVES To measure the processes of care, health benefits and costs of outreach clinics held by hospital specialists in primary care settings. DESIGN The study was designed as a case-referent (comparative) study in which the features of 19 outreach clinics (cases) were compared with matched outpatient clinics (controls). The measuring instruments were self administered questionnaires. Pati...

background: understanding the motives and reasons for drug treatment is very important. this study aimed to develop a psychometric evaluation to determine the reasons for addiction treatment among outpatients referred to addiction treatment clinics. methods: this cross-sectional validation study included five phases (i) item generation (ii) making an initial questionnaire (iii) content validity...