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...

BACKGROUND Clients and providers of health care can have contrasting perceptions about the quality of service. Provider perceptions are mostly devoted to design and delivery of services while those of clients are focused in the attention received. AIM To assess perceptions of health care providers and clients about client management and satisfaction with services provided. MATERIAL AND METH...

OBJECTIVES (To determine the level and consistency of condom use among family planning clients at three family planning clinics in Zimbabwe.) DESIGN A prospective cross sectional study. SETTING The study was carried out at three Zimbabwe National Family Planning Council clinics. SUBJECTS We interviewed 899 consecutive women seeking family planning services at these three clinics using a s...

This qualitative study assessed clients' participation in organizational decision making in a public long-term psychiatric hospital. Numerous examples were found in which clients meaningfully participated in the decision-making process and achieved favorable policy changes. Three means of involving clients were found to be especially useful: (1) using a consumer council, (2) involving clients i...

We evaluate the efficiency and cost of different placement strategies for a distributed cache implemented on the clients of an online social network or web service. In our system model, the service maintains a directory for content that tracks the location of objects. The service informs requesting clients of these locations and the clients will cache, serve, and push content according to direc...

We design and implement a correspondence experiment to test for differences in real estate agent response across client race, ethnicity, gender, side of market. Real agents are more likely respond White clients than Black or Hispanic clients—Whites have 32.18% higher rate Hispanics an 8.48% clients. also find that responsive sellers (23.81% premium over buyers) female (13.57% males).

Because a multicast data server or broadcast disk can have clients of very different network capacities, the server needs to offer its repository of data items at a variety of transmission speeds to service clients’ varied requests. In this paper, we study how to slice a server’s available outgoing network capacity into data channels, how to assign the server’s data to those channels, and how t...

In many data broadcasting applications clients are grouped into several groups, each one located at a different region, with the members of each group having similar demands. This paper proposes a mechanism that exploits locality of demand in order to increase the performance of wireless data dissemination systems. It trades the received energy per bit redundancy at distances smaller than the r...

While brothel-based sex work is regulated by the Peruvian government, there is little data on STI risk factors reported by female sex workers (FSW). This study compared high risk behaviors among 120 Peruvian FSW from government regulated brothels with both clients and non-commercial partners. Our study found that 12% of FSW reported unprotected vaginal sex with clients (compared to 75% with non...

OBJECTIVE The study examined outcomes of clients treated by primary care psychologists in 2010 in the Netherlands. METHODS Data for 55,067 clients treated by 613 primary care psychologists were analyzed for three outcomes: regular conclusion of treatment, improvement of >10 points on the Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF), and treatment conclusion in eight or fewer sessions. Logistic regr...