Background: Patient and parent satisfaction is a significant indicator for the evaluation of quality of care in healthcare systems. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of sociodemographic characteristics on the satisfaction of the parents of newborns admitted in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) in maternity and infant disease hospitals. Methods: This descriptive study was conducted on ...

INTRODUCTION The recruitment of patients into clinical trials is often thought to be a selective process whereby non-biological variables such as education, occupation, family/social support, and socioeconomic status are often found to be predictive of patient volunteers. This paper considers whether the susceptibility of trials to recruit non-representative patient populations may impair the e...

PURPOSE To examine whether neighborhood deprivation increases the odds of hospital registration for childhood and adolescent epilepsy, after accounting for family- and individual-level sociodemographic characteristics. METHODS An open cohort of all children aged 2-17 years was followed between January 1, 2000 and December 31, 2010. Children's residential addresses were geocoded and classified...