background & aim: healthcare areas, especially fertility care (commonly accompanied with high emotions, as well as long-term and recurring treatment periods) could exclusively benefit from patient-centered care (pcc). despite evident advantages of pcc, this approach has not been practiced as a routine procedure in current clinical environments yet, even in western developed countries. therefore...

in order to equip medical students with all the necessary skills in dealing with patients to provide optimal treatment, the need for the use of real patients in educational settings has become prominent. but all the required skills cannot be practiced on real patients due to patients’ safety and well-being. thus, the use of standardized patients (sps) or simulated patients (sips) as a substitut...

introduction: one of the most important indices of effectiveness and delivery quality of sanitary and medical services is patient satisfaction with hospital services. it is necessary that hospitals pay attention to patient's needs and ensure their satisfaction. therefore the current study was conducted with the aim of identifying the level of patient satisfaction with hospital services delivere...

background: despite its benefits and importance, clinical counseling affects the patient both psychosocially and socially. illness labeling not only leads to many problems for patient and his/her family but also it imposes high costs to health care system. among various factors, doctor-patient relationship has an important role in the clinical counseling and its medical approach. the goal of th...

background: in today's competitive world, organizations' survival and success depends on satisfying customer needs and ex­pec­tations. this is particularly important in health care sector where quality of service and customer relations are the key suc­cess factors. the purpose of this research was to determine whether there was a relationship between patient satisfaction and loyalty to the serv...

Objective The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of Peplau’s Interpersonal Relations Model on preoperative and postoperative patient anxiety. Design The study used a randomised clinical trial design. Setting The sample of this study consisted of 120 patients who attended the surgery clinic at Atatürk University Hospital in Erzurum, Turkey between 1 June and 30 October 2004. Su...

Although it has been hypothesized that congenital dilataion of the common bile duct is caused by the reflux of pancreatic juice into the choledochus, the etiology of this disease is not yet established. To determine whether bile acids have relations with the cause of congenital biliary dilatation or haven't, we analyzed the choledochal bile in a patient with congenital biliary dilatation. The r...

Patient underwent mandibular resection due to surgical therapy of oropharingeal malignoma. Facial asymmetry and cosmetic distortion are frequent consequences of such interventions, which may also include deviation and intrusion of the mandible, motor and sensory disorders, abnormal intermaxillary relations and malocclusion. Implant-supported prosthesis could be an optimal solution to prosthodon...

We report two experiments examining whether factors that affect binding in explicit report tasks also affect implicit binding in a patient with Balint's syndrome, G.K. Replicating prior studies, we showed that there could be implicit binding of visual features in a patient with Balint's syndrome who was at chance at explicitly discriminating the relations between the features. Nevertheless, whe...