BACKGROUND Appendicitis is one of the most common surgical emergencies and is also a time-sensitive condition. Delays in treatment increase the risk of appendiceal perforation (AP), and thus AP rates have been used as a proxy to measure access to surgical care. It is very well known that in Brazil there are big differences between the public and private healthcare systems. Those differences can...

BACKGROUND Patient satisfaction is an important measure of healthcare quality as it offers information on the provider's success at meeting clients' expectations and is a key determinant of patients' perspective behavioral intention. The aim of this paper is first to assess the degree of patient satisfaction, and second, to study the relationship between patient satisfaction of healthcare syste...

Many countries around the globe are investing on e-healthcare increasingly, which offers tremendous benefits to all stakeholders in healthcare. Nevertheless, this technology introduces unprecedented privacy concerns toward patients and raise more uncertainty among them to use e-healthcare for monitoring their vital signs. These concerns necessitate finding scientific solutions, which enable e-h...

The specialist physician has always played a pivotal role in the healthcare of South Africans. Following specialisation, either through the College of Medicine or a Master's of Medicine obtained from a university, many of these doctors have branched out into the private sector and continue to play a vital role in the management of patients. The total number of specialist physicians registered w...

PURPOSE As cancer control strategies have become more successful, issues around survival have become increasingly important to researchers and policy makers. The aim of this study was to examine the role of a range of clinical and socio-demographic variables in explaining variations in survival after a prostate cancer diagnosis, paying particular attention to the role of healthcare provider(s) ...

BACKGROUND Effective infectious disease control requires early diagnosis and treatment initiation. Point-of-care testing offers rapid turn-around-times, facilitating same day clinical management decisions. To maximize the benefits of such POC testing programs, we need to understand how rapid tests are used in everyday clinical practice. METHODS In this cross-sectional survey study, 400 primar...

BACKGROUND Adeno-/tonsillectomy is a commonly performed procedure with internationally standardised and recognised indications. Despite this, there exists considerable international (190 - 850/100 000 people ≤19 years of age) and regional variation in rates. This cannot be accounted for by differences in clinical need or regional morbidity. OBJECTIVES To describe the adeno-/tonsillectomy rate...

Now-a-days Healthcare Sectors to create a cloud computing environment to obtain a patient's complete medical record. This environment reduces time consuming efforts and other costly operations and uniformly integrates collection of medical data to deliver it to the healthcare specialists. Electronic Health Records have been usually implemented to enable healthcare providers and patients to crea...

BACKGROUND Although extra pulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) has long been known as a major public health concern globally, the complex healthcare-seeking pathways of EPTB patients are not widely studied. This study aims to explore the pattern of healthcare-seeking pathways of rural and urban EPTB patients registered with the BRAC TB control programme. BRAC is a Bangladesh-based non-governmental org...

Objectives: Private Equity (PE) involvement in healthcare has been evident the United States (US) for some time, with questionable benefits reported. There are significant differences funding, health insurance and regulation US, when compared to Australia New Zealand (NZ), so it is not clear whether existing US research can be generalised these settings. This study aims examine published inform...