BACKGROUND Health care office staff and providers may discriminate against people of low socioeconomic status, even in the absence of economic incentives to do so. We sought to determine whether socioeconomic status affects the response a patient receives when seeking a primary care appointment. METHODS In a single unannounced telephone call to a random sample of family physicians and general...

Evaluation of healthcare services by patients is an essential component of quality improvement. We studied association between patient satisfaction and accessibility of healthcare services to patients with chronic nonmalignant pain. A hundred patients from the Pain Clinic, Split University Hospital Center, Split, Croatia, completed a 27-item questionnaire about their condition, duration of chro...

IJPRES ABSTRACT─ In this enterprise is employed to the Condition care watching system. Distributed care cloud computing arrangement considerably facilitates effectual patient treatment for health consultation by allocating confidential condition information amid care suppliers. Though, it brings regarding the trial of keeping each the info confidentiality and patients’ individuality privacy at ...

A new programme to try and match the preferences of students and consultants in preregistration appointments has been designed after a survey of student opinion. It is based on five main principles: a standardized change-over date for posts; holding only one post in a teaching hospital; separate application for house physician and house surgeon appointments; application six months before the po...

Sir, the rabies vaccination is the best method for prevention of rabies, a deadly neurological infection. The problem of missed appointment of rabies vaccination is common and becomes an important concern in tropical neurology. Here, the authors would like to share the experience on another important problem in clinical practice in maintenance of rabies vaccination schedule. The authors review ...

Non-adherence to medical regimens is a critical threat to HIV-infected individuals. Persons living with HIV/AIDS must adhere to their outpatient medical appointments to benefit from continually improving HIV care regimens. The primary purpose of the present study was to identify individual and psychosocial characteristics associated with HIV-related medical appointment non-attendance. One hundr...