background: standard cares in substance abuse treatment centers (satc) have an important role in treatment success achievement. patients’ views will provide valuable information to improve the performance of these centers. the purpose of current study was to determine patients’ comments on quality of addiction treatment at satcs. methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted in 2013. the st...

OBJECTIVE To assess the validity of the Minimum Data Set (MDS)-based quality indicator, "depression without treatment," and examine whether a nonphysician-based educational intervention can improve the accuracy of MDS questions regarding depression and its treatment. SUBJECTS All residents of a 538-bed urban, university affiliated, long-term-care (LTC) facility. Nursing and social work staff ...

background:chronic idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (itp) is an autoimmune disorder characterized by a low platelet count due to reduced production and higher destruction of the platelets. therapy is aimed at increasing the patient’s platelet count to safe levels and includes a wide variety of treatments, which has a large impact on the patient’s quality of life. health related quality of li...

PATIENTS AND METHODS A sample of breast cancer patients (n=62 women) were interviewed for the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire (EORTC QLQ-C30) in Albanian. Reliability of the questionnaire was considered acceptable if Cronbach's alpha was ≥0.70. Item convergent-discriminant validity was tested through multitrait scaling analysis. Construct...

Animal health and welfare planning is considered an important tool for herd management; however, its effectiveness is less well known. The aim of this study was to conduct animal health and welfare planning on 34 Austrian dairy farms and to evaluate changes in health and welfare after 1 yr. After an initial assessment using the Welfare Quality protocol (Welfare Quality Consortium, Lelystad, the...