The number of outpatient visits at Labuang Baji Hospital, Makassar decreased from 2017 as many 47.773 patients to 45.591 where the decrease in was indicated be related excellent service provided by hospital. This study aims analyze effect application on satisfaction outpatients Makassar. type research is a quantitative using cross sectional design. conducted room total sample 397 outpatients. D...

Abstract Aim: To explore how mental health professionals address spiritual care for outpatients in weekly multidisciplinary meetings (MDM), and to the barriers facilitators ways those meetings. Method: Two teams of providing psychiatric are included. Qualitative data were collected from audio recordings focus-group interviews afterwards. Data analysed using ‘open coding’. Results: Spiritual was...

OBJECTIVES To measure the processes of care, health benefits and costs of outreach clinics held by hospital specialists in primary care settings. DESIGN The study was designed as a case-referent (comparative) study in which the features of 19 outreach clinics (cases) were compared with matched outpatient clinics (controls). The measuring instruments were self administered questionnaires. Pati...

This article reviews the current literature relating to medical outpatient services. It has been produced as part of the RCP/NHS Confederation working party on outpatients departments. The article deals with surveys of patient views on outpatients, suggested ways of improving the service, and how best to accommodate teaching in this setting. An RCP booklet, 'How user friendly is your outpatient...

Approximately 80% of patients with community-acquired pneumonia receive treatment as outpatients. The question is what are valid, reproducible, and quantifiable clinical end points that can be used in prospective clinical trials of the safety and efficacy of antibacterials. Patient-reported outcomes and measurements of time to end point are reasonable methods that, according to the limited data...

BACKGROUND: Predictors of relapse to methamphetamine use are poorly understood. State variables may play an important role in relapse, but they have been difficult to measure at frequent intervals in outpatients. METHODS: We conducted a feasibility study of the use of cellular telephones to collect state variable data from outpatients. Six subjects in treatment for methamphetamine dependence w...

The prevalence of oral yeasts and humoral precipitating antibodies to candida was estimated in 204 unselected diabetic patients (172 outpatients and 32 inpatients). Yeasts, mainly Candida albicans, were isolated from the mouths of 41% of the outpatients and precipitins were found in 17.5% although none of the patients had clinically overt candidiasis. The extent of oral yeast colonisation and i...