OBJECTIVE To assess patients' opinions on the perceived benefit of treatment delivered during their stay in a residential facility. METHOD We administered the Opinions on Curative Factors Questionnaire (OCFQ), which was developed from previous studies and assesses several treatment modalities and therapeutic factors, to a sample of 157 severely ill psychiatric patients admitted to a residenti...

BACKGROUND Little is known about the impact of dialysis facility treatment philosophy on access to transplant. The aim of our study was to determine the relationship between the dialysis facility transplant philosophy and facility-level access to kidney transplant waitlisting. METHODS A 25-item questionnaire administered to Southeastern dialysis facilities (n = 509) in 2012 captured the facil...

OBJECTIVES (1) To estimate the cost of irrational prescribing, and (2) to compare the effect of three different kinds of user fee on prescribing costs, in rural Nepal. METHODS A controlled before-after study was conducted in 33 government primary health care facilities in rural eastern Nepal during 1992-95. A fee per prescription (covering all drugs in whatever amounts) was regarded as the co...

We consider a multi-item two-echelon inventory system in which the central warehouse operates under a (Q,R) policy, and the local warehouses implement basestock policy. An exact solution procedure is proposed to find the inventory control policy parameters that minimize the system-wide inventory holding and fixed ordering cost subject to an aggregate mean response time constraint at each facility.

BACKGROUND Most of the academic teachers use four or five options per item of multiple choice question (MCQ) test as formative and summative assessment. Optimal number of options in MCQ item is a matter of considerable debate among academic teachers of various educational fields. There is a scarcity of the published literature regarding the optimum number of option in each item of MCQ in the fi...

This study developed a vulnerability evaluation framework for earthquake and flood disasters targeting water treatment facilities. The of facility determines factors such as exposure, sensitivity, adaptive capacity in consideration the characteristics an environmental facility. At this time, items are derived topography, natural environment, hydraulic, structural, non-structural by analyzing co...

this study investigated the utility of all of the above (aota) as a test option in multiple-choice items. it aimed at estimating item fit, item difficulty, item discrimination, and guess factor of such a choice. five reading passages of the key english test (ket, 2010) were adapted. the test was reconstructed in 2 parallel forms: test 1 did not include the abovementioned alternative, whereas te...

Background: Conceptualising the Borderline candidate is one of most difficult tasks in standard setting. However, it also central to process. Here we set out develop a methodology by which score borderline candidates can be retrospectively calculated from Facility index (the percentage items answered correctly) assessment items. Methods: We explored performance all an academic year UK medi...