BACKGROUND Accessibility to secondary health services is not always easy for patients who live at a great distance of hospital. In these circumstances, transferring diagnostic tools and treatment options to primary care could prove beneficial for patients. To do so, the quality of medical care and the costs and benefits of the approach need to be assessed. However, the patient perspective is eq...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the influence of continuity of care on patient satisfaction with consultations. DESIGN Direct and episodic specific evaluation of patient satisfaction with recent consultation. SETTING AND SUBJECTS A representative sample of 3918 Norwegian primary care patients were asked to evaluate their consultations by filling in a questionnaire. The response rate was 78%. MAIN O...

BACKGROUND Point-of-care testing is increasingly being used in general practice to assist GPs in their management of patients with chronic disease. However, patient satisfaction and acceptability of point-of-care testing in general practice has not been widely studied. AIM To determine if patients are more satisfied with point-of-care testing than with pathology laboratory testing for three c...

medical literature into a form easily assimilable by busy practitioners is defining and producing practice guidelines. Many practice guideline programmes exist, both in the United States (for example the NIH Consensus Conference program which has been running since 1977) and in various European countries. But there is little evidence that the diffusion of such guidelines effectively modifies cl...

Many difficult computational problems involve the simultaneous satisfaction of multiple constraints that are individually easy to satisfy. These constraints might be derived from measurements (as in tomography or diffractive imaging), interparticle interactions (as in spin glasses), or a combination of sources (as in protein folding). We present a simple geometric framework to express and solve...

BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that racial differences in satisfaction can be found among OB/GYN patients on a US naval base. METHODS: Cross-sectional surveys assessing satisfaction with services were obtained from 838 patients who were seen in one of the two general OB/GYN clinics (455 in the base hospital clinic and 391 in a satellite clinic). Multiple logist...

the subject of women occupation outside the home possible and negative effects of their own or family is including the controversial issues contemporary iranian society. the changes due to industrialization and become smaller family caused to increase free time for the women and more opportunities to pursue education and find the occupation outside the home. the research conducted on social eff...

Constraint satisfaction problems are very common in computer science; in fact it has been claimed in [2] that most of the problems in Garey and Johnson [5] can be naturally expressed as constraint satisfaction. Since many of these problems have infinite analogues it seems reasonable to consider infinite constraint satisfaction. Then by proving a compactness result for the infinite constraint sa...

background and aim: nurses’ job satisfaction has a main role in elevating the quality of healthcare services delivered to patients. the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between personality traits dimensions (i.e., neuroticism, extroversion, conscientiousness) and job satisfaction among nurses working in the hospitals affiliated to ahvaz jundishapur university of medical sci...