PURPOSE The patient-centered approach to health care does not seem to be sufficiently developed in the Italian context, and is still characterized by the biomedical model. In addition, there is a lack of validated outcome measures to assess outpatient experience as an aspect common to a variety of settings. The current study aimed to evaluate the factorial validity, reliability, and invariance ...

This paper provides an analysis of discourse markers in English(es) spoken by Zanzibaris, using data from sociolinguistic interviews. The focus is on you know and I think. In English as a lingua franca (ELF), both have been shown to be used differently than ‘native’ speakers, especially marking subjectivity or speaker-centeredness. show similarities with ELF communication, that the express high...

Background Clients' needs and their satisfaction are priority issues in studying quality in reproductive health services. However, only 24-37% of Ethiopian women were informed about the available family planning methods and their utilization. High national total fertility rate (4.8) and low contraceptive prevalence rate (29%) might be attributed to these and other reasons. This study assessed t...

This study aims to investigate the greatest efforts exerted by English Language Center at KKU transform traditional teaching style based on teacher-centeredness student-teaching centeredness using Internet of Things. The entails role Things (IoT) improve quality and cope with rapid change among digital natives. adopts a descriptive-analytical method, main instrument used for collecting data is ...

Previous research suggests that female physicians may not receive appropriate credit in patients' eyes for their patient-centered skills compared to their male counterparts. An experiment was conducted to determine whether a performance of higher (versus lower) verbal patient-centeredness would result in a greater difference in analogue patient satisfaction for male than female physicians. Two ...

Through field research at Cardiff University in the UK, this paper points out that connotation of Student-centeredness (SC) can be summarized into four aspects: centering on students' physical and mental health quality life, participation, learning outcomes experiences. The core these is learning. centered. guarantees realization student learning-centered through establishment an academic suppo...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Trauma exposure predicts mental disorders, medical morbidity, and health care costs. Yet trauma-related impacts have not received sufficient attention in primary care provider (PCP) training programs. This study adapted a theory-based approach to working with trauma survivors, Risking Connection, into a 6-hour CME course, Trauma-Informed Medical Care (TI-Med), and eval...

OBJECTIVE To assess the patient-centeredness of personal health records (PHR) and offer recommendations for best practice guidelines. DESIGN Semi-structured interviews were conducted in seven large early PHR adopter organizations in 2007. Organizations were purposively selected to represent a variety of US settings, including medium and large hospitals, ambulatory care facilities, insurers an...

John Ioannidis argues that problem base, context placement, information gain, pragmatism, patient centeredness, value for money, feasibility, and transparency define useful clinical research. He suggests most clinical research is not useful and reform is overdue.