PURPOSE Colorectal cancer is the third most prevalent cancer worldwide, although mortality rates across most of Europe have decreased in recent years. Historically, patients are asked to return to hospital outpatient clinics following treatment to monitor for disease progression. However, new approaches are being called for that focus on meeting the information and support needs of patients. Te...

BACKGROUND Depot antipsychotic medication is used widely in the treatment and prophylaxis of severe mental illness. AIMS To review the literature on patient and nurse satisfaction with, and attitudes towards, depots. METHOD A systematic search of Medline, Embase, PsycINFO, CINAHL and The Cochrane Library was undertaken, along with citation searches. Studies were selected if satisfaction/att...

This paper tackles the nurse scheduling problem with balanced preference satisfaction which consists of generating an assignment of shifts to nurses over a given time horizon and ensuring that the satisfaction of nurses’ personal preferences for shifts is as even as possible in order to ensure fairness. We propose a heuristic algorithm based on successive resolutions of the bottleneck assignmen...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to ascertain GPs' views about open access to out-patient follow-up for patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). METHODS Semi-structured interviews and a postal survey were carried out in general practices in West Glamorgan UK, each with at least one IBD patient taking part in a randomized trial of open access versus routine follow-up, which has been ...

BACKGROUND Beyond examining their overall cost-effectiveness and mechanisms of effect, it is important to understand patient preferences for the delivery of different modes of chronic heart failure management programs (CHF-MPs). We elicited patient preferences around the characteristics and willingness-to-pay (WTP) for a clinic or home-based CHF-MP. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS A Discrete C...

it is widely accepted in many parts of the world thatcommunity nurses are of vital importance in various phases of disaster response and management. in china, however, it is not clear whether the chinese community nurses are able to assume disaster-related duties due to the lack of a systematic assessment.a pre-designed and well-tested questionnaire was employed to evaluate the competency in di...

One of the fundamental principles of social organization, age polyethism, describes behavioral maturation of workers leading to switches in task preference. Here we present a system that allows for studying division of labor (DOL) by taking advantage of the relative short life of Cardiocondyla obscurior workers and thereby the pace of behavioral transitions. By challenging same-age young and ol...

Respectful maternity care refers to organized for and provided all women in a manner that maintains their dignity, privacy confidentiality, ensures freedom from harm mistreatment, enables informed choice continuous support during labour childbirth (WHO, 2018). Aim: The aim of present study was assess the awareness components respectful among nurse-midwives working units.Method: A descriptive su...