BACKGROUND Harm reduction case management relies on client-identified goals to drive the provision of care in order to "meet clients where they are at". This research measured the level of agreement between client-identified needs and agency-provided services at a community based organization (CBO) in Washington DC by examining: (1) the services clients most often identified, (2) the services m...

background: underutilization of mental health care services has been a challenge for the health care providers for many years. this challenge could be met in part by improving the clients’ readiness to use such services. this study aimed to introduce the important aspects of the clients’ readiness to use mental health services in the iranian context. materials and methods: a thematic analysis o...

In this paper the real time operation of an automatic teller machine (ATM) is analyzed using aTimed Petri Net (TPN) model. In the modeling, the probability of arrivals, the speed andattentiveness of customers (clients) are taken to account. Different parameters are based onthe statistical data. The model is simulated for 24 hours. The diagrams of number ofsucceeded customers, failed references ...

This paper studies the impact of an expert’s concern for future business on his conduct and market effi ciency. In markets for professional services including health care, legal services, consulting and car mechanic services, clients often lack the expertise to assess the value of services provided by an expert both before and after consumption. Clients’ ignorance exposes them to the risk of be...

introduction: in any organization particularly in health care centers, the clients' satisfaction provides the conditions to achieve the pre-determined objectives. one of the ways to get the clients' satisfaction is to follow the clients' takrim plan. to this end, in this article, the clients' takrim plan was studied in health centers affiliated with oil industry organization. methods and materi...

INTRODUCTION Close interaction between clients and health care workers as regards disclosure, refusal of treatment and right to know status has been a subject of debate in legal and medical quarters. The objective of this study was to assess perceived rights of health care workers towards disclosure of HIV status in Lagos State in Southwestern Nigeria. METHODS This was a descriptive cross sec...

In this paper, we propose real-time communication middleware which supports data dissemination with proxy extension. To fulfill stringent QoS requirement such as timing constraint, we employ push-based data delivery approach and real-time channel. Furthermore, by making the most of connected clients, we could permit the increased number of clients and extend the scalability. Since it is also de...