Background: Visit length is an indicator that can be used to assess patients’ satisfaction of the health care services. In recent years, some studies have focused on the mean visit time in Iran. This study aimed at determining the average visit time in Iran by performing a systematic review and meta-analysis.    Methods: In this study, Embase, PubMed/MEDLINE,...

People visit museums with differing motivations. We use Falk’s visitor identity model to examine visitors’ motivations an art museum. assess (1) the prevalence of different motivation types; (2) how and outcomes relate satisfaction length; (3) relation between fulfillment expectations. found that visitors most strongly endorsed related exploration least facilitating another’s visit; predicted l...

BACKGROUND The demand for complementary medicine (CM) is growing worldwide and so is the supply. So far, there is not much insight in the activities in Dutch CM practices nor in how these activities differ from mainstream general practice. Comparisons on diagnoses and visit length can offer an impression of how Dutch CM practices operate. METHODS Three groups of regularly trained physicians s...

OBJECTIVE The main objectives of the study were to determine the average waiting times of patients at each of the treatment stations in a large paediatric out-patient department, and to determine the average length of time for a patient visit with paediatricians and interns. DESIGN Data were collected over the period of 1 month, from 1 to 31 October 1994, on patient waiting times and length o...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether outpatient visits by elders seeing community family physicians differ in length or content from visits by younger patients; socioemotional preferences predict visit content; and satisfaction correlates with visit content differentially across age. METHODS In a multimethod cross-sectional study of 84 community family practices in northeastern Ohio, 3453 adult pat...

Background and aims: Quality of visit services is a decisive aspect of patient-physician communication that its inadequacy can negatively influence the diagnosis efficiency. The aim of this study was to survey visit quality at provincial level during plan of health sector evolution in Tabriz. Methods: A sample of 540 patients who referred to the outpatien...