OBJECTIVES To summarize the changes in rheumatology provision and working practice that have occurred on the basis of the results of the 1997, 1999 and 2001 surveys carried out to update the British Society for Rheumatology/Arthritis Research Campaign Rheumatology Workforce Register. METHODS The Workforce Register includes all consultant rheumatologists in the UK who do at least one NHS clini...

BACKGROUND The General Practice Assessment Questionnaire (GPAQ) has been widely used to assess patient experience in general practice in the UK since 2004. In 2013, new regulations were introduced by the General Medical Council (GMC) requiring UK doctors to undertake periodic revalidation, which includes assessment of patient experience for individual doctors. We describe the development of a n...

Surveys conducted in the context of the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) programme are an important source of data on health of families in developing countries. Both at the national and international level, DHS surveys provide much-needed data on fertility and family planning, on mortality and nutrition, and on health services utilization. The use of uniform survey instruments allows detai...

Turkey has been experiencing significant fertility decline since the 1950s. Increasing mean ages at childbearing have accompanied this decline, thus studies regarding tempo effects are necessary for Turkey. The main aim of this study is to reveal the tempo distortions in recent period fertility in Turkey as a whole and for different sub-groups by using an adjustment procedure. A procedure by Bo...

this paper presents a new framework for developing a sustainable and inspirational vision through combination of futuring and storytelling concepts. this combination helped us to overcome the previous problems and weaknesses on the way of visioning process and vision communication. to achieve key elements of corporate vision and narration, 237 questionnaires containing five open ended questions...

Assessment of asthma control in preschool children is important for therapeutic decisions. Aim of this study was to evaluate the predictive value of TRACK questionnaire scores for subsequent clinical parameters and to investigate the validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the TRACK questionnaire. We enrolled 100 children with asthma aged 4 years or younger in this cohort study. We r...

Although web survey has been a popular method of data collection in the academic community, it presents meagre response rates, which primarily affect validity results as well reliability outcomes. Surveys worldwide that study rate only teachers have not found relevant literature. In this survey, with sample 263 Greek teachers, we investigate possible factors explain teachers’ intention to parti...

OBJECTIVE To examine the availability of data measuring noncommunicable disease (NCD) risk factor indicators from household surveys conducted in India from 2000 to 2009. METHODS Questionnaires and publications used in household surveys were identified through internet and PubMed searches and examined to determine which core NCD risk factor indicators recommended by the World Health Organizati...