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BACKGROUND Knowing patients' needs is a prerequisite to ensure high quality cancer care. This study describes the development and psychometric properties of a patient-centred instrument to measure needs and actual experiences with communication preceding chemotherapy treatment: QUOTE(chemo). QUOTE-questionnaires (Quality Of care Through the patients' Eyes) are widely used to gain insight into u...

In this paper we analyze and interpret the quote price dynamics of 100 NYSE stocks stratified by trade frequency. We specify an error-correction model for the log difference of the bid and the ask price with the spread acting as the error-correction term, and include as regressors the characteristics of the trades occurring between quote observations, if any. From this model we are also able to...

Our last two columns have explored various techniques for using distributed callbacks to decouple clients and servers and create peer-to-peer relationships between the objects in a distributed system. We’ve shown various ways to eliminate the polling required by a stock application client. All these approaches center around direct or indirect callbacks from the Stock Quote Server. Like all engi...

OBJECTIVES To gain insight into similarities and differences in patient evaluations of quality of primary care across 12 European countries and to correlate patient evaluations with WHO health system performance measures (for example, responsiveness) of these countries. METHODS Patient evaluations were derived from a series of Quote (QUality of care Through patients' Eyes) instruments designe...