Veteran satisfaction with RN voice-mail greeting.

Patients’ Satisfaction with Home Care Services in Greece

As an alternative form, home care is associated with benefits concerning the quality of the care they receive. Patients’ satisfaction constitutes a significant factor for the qualitative evaluation of healthcare services. The estimation of the level of satisfaction of cancer patients with home care services. Material and methods: The Home Care Client Satisfaction Instrument-Revised was used whi...

Using Context-based Statistical Models to Promote the Quality of Voice Conversion Systems

This article aims to examine methods of optimizing GMM-based voice conversion systems performance in which GMM method is introduced as the basic method for improvement of voice conversion systems performance. In the current methods, due to using a single conversion function to convert all speech units and subsequent spectral smoothing arising from statistical averaging, we will observe quality ...

The preanesthetic interview by anesthesiology residents: analysis of time and content

BACKGROUND A preanesthetic visit can increase a patient's satisfaction. However, it is uncertain whether a preanesthetic visit by an anesthesiology resident can achieve the goal. We studied the time distribution for content of preanesthetic interviews (PI) and evaluated the patient's satisfaction with the PI. METHODS We recorded the PI duration of 200 patients by a voice recorder. The degrees...

Summary of the Military and Veteran Mental Health and Traumatic Stress Literature: 2012

Role stress and career satisfaction among registered nurses by work shift patterns.

OBJECTIVE This study examined the variation in role stress and career satisfaction among hospital-based registered nurses (RNs) by shift length. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA Many hospitals have reorganized care delivery into 12-hour work shifts to improve RN recruitment, retention, and cost effectiveness. Yet little is known about the effects of 12-hour shifts on RN role stress and career satisfac...