Background and Objectives: Job satisfaction is a critical factor in attracting and retaining nurses. Although many studies have dealt with nurses’ job satisfaction, rapid transformation of the community and health systems can alter the factors influencing this issue, hence calling for continuous monitoring of job satisfaction as perceived by nurses. Built on this necessity, the present study wa...

Background This short communication report some new results obtained from a medical survey among 900 Vietnamese patients in 2015, looking into possibly influential sociodemographic factors as far as patient satisfaction is concerned, to establish empirical relationships between them for policy implications. Methods The study employed the baseline category logit models to establish empirical r...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the medium-term outcome and patient's satisfaction after Single-incision mini-sling (SIMS) procedure done under local anesthesia in ambulatory set up for patients with stress urinary incontinence (SUI). MATERIALS AND METHODS This is a retrospective cohort study, including all patients submitted to SIMS procedure for SUI with MiniArc (AMS, U.S.A) without concomitant surge...

background: the trajectory of marital quality over the life course assumes a curvilinear pattern and declines over time. however, most studies to date have been conducted in developed societies, leaving the generalizability of their findings open to skepticism. in this study, we aimed to delineate the trajectory of marital satisfaction in iran. methods: using cluster-sampling method, representa...

This study focuses on the middle school students in the Croatian region of Dalmatia. The survey was designed to examine adolescent eating behavior as it relates to body image and psychological well-being (self-esteem, life-satisfaction and stress) in relation to body mass index; BMI. Differences among participants in food intake were examined according to demographic variables and eating behavi...

Purpose. To report visual outcomes and patient satisfaction after unilateral or bilateral refractive lens exchange (RLE) with a single-piece bifocal diffractive multifocal intraocular lens (MIOL). Methods. All patients underwent RLE with the ZMB00 MIOL (Abbott Medical Optics). Patient charts were reviewed to evaluate the distance, intermediate, and near visual acuity (VA), contrast sensitivity,...

BACKGROUND Ultrasound guidance improves the localization of anesthetic placement during regional anesthesia, but a decreased rate of adverse events has not been demonstrated in the current literature. In this large prospective study, we evaluated the safety, efficacy, and patient satisfaction associated with ultrasound-guided interscalene block. METHODS A cohort of 1319 patients undergoing ar...