UK and Ireland guidelines state that all pregnant women should have their first antenatal care appointment by 13 weeks of pregnancy (antenatal booking). We present the results of an analysis looking at the association between maternal ethnicity and late antenatal booking in HIV-positive women in the UK and Ireland. We analysed data from the National Study of HIV in Pregnancy and Childhood (NSHP...

Based on information systems acceptance literature, this study develops an integrated model to predict and explain behavioral intention to use mobile booking (m-booking). Data collected from 201 users in Taiwan are tested against the research model, using the structural equation modeling approach. The proposed model is mostly supported by the empirical data. The findings of this study provide s...

BACKGROUND Early booking of antenatal care (ANC) is regarded as a cornerstone of maternal and neonatal health care. However, existing evidence from developing countries indicate that lots of pregnant woman begin ANC booking lately. Objective. It was aimed to assess timing of ANC booking and associated factors among pregnant women attending ANC clinic at University of Gondar Hospital, 2013. ME...

The proportion of pregnant women initiating prenatal care during first trimester pregnancy is one of the standard clinical performance measures to assess the quality of maternal health care. Aiming to assess the proportion and factors associated with late booking at antenatal care, this health-institution based cross-sectional study was conducted from April to June 2012 among 390 pregnant mothe...

Antenatal care utilization is influenced by several factors. Due to our peculiar socioeconomic and cultural circumstances, gestational age at booking may be affected by certain variables. The aim of this study was to determine the influence of parity and other socio demographic factors on gestational age at booking amongst pregnant women in Enugu, South Eastern Nigeria. This is a prospective mu...

Delaying treatment for benign musculoskeletal conditions may allow patients to learn self-efficacy and develop coping strategies, leading to less medical intervention and reduced cost. We tested the hypothesis that time from booking until appointment is not associated with healthcare costs. We further tested the secondary hypothesis that time from booking to appointment is not associated with s...

Tsung-Hsien Tsai National Quemoy University Kinmen, Taiwan Abstract This paper utilizes data collected during the booking period and presents a novel advanced booking model to predict railway arrivals. As the date is approaching the departure day, more and more booking information is cumulated in the railway database. We extract useful patterns based on temporal features and formulate a two-sta...

Online air ticket booking is a cognitively complex task even on fully-functional internet-access devices such as desktops, representing a repetitive multi-parametric search in the flights database and then browsing long lists of flights found, consisting of different carriers, prices, dates and times, to create an optimal combination of outbound and inbound flights. We present the results of re...