background in recent years, accreditation of private hospitals followed by decentralisation of the italian national health service (nhs) into 21 regional health systems has provided a good empirical ground for investigating the tiebout principle of “voting with their feet”. we examine the infra-regional trade-off between greater patient choice (due to an increase in hospital services supply) an...

background: in order to assign appropriate planning target volume (ptv) margins, each centre should measure the patient positioning deviations for their set-up techniques. at the royal marsden hospital, uk, a conformal shell (cast) system is used when a stereotactic frame is not suitable. in this paper, we report on a series of measurements with the aim of obtaining the systematic and random co...

results of the 89 subjects, 53 were male and 36 females, aged 14 to 82 years. there was no significant difference between ebv seroprevalence in the patients with lymphoma and multiple myeloma, and the healthy subjects. conclusions the results of the current study indicated no relationship between latent ebv infection and lymphoma or multiple myeloma. however, further studies with larger sample ...

the patient’s satisfaction as an important indicator evaluates the process of care and is a valid method for standardization of hospital services. this cross-sectional descriptive study has done to assess patient satisfaction of hospital services (shahed medical affiliated hospitals). in this study, 500 patients selected randomly and their satisfaction was measured by a standardized questionnai...

background in medical practice, the dissatisfaction of patients about medical decisions made by doctors is often regarded as the fuse of doctor-patient conflict. however, a few studies have looked at why there are such dissatisfactions. objectives this experimental study aimed to explore the discrepancy between attitude and behavior within medical situations and its interaction with framing des...

a better understanding of factors influencing quality of medical service can pinpoint better strategies for quality assurance in medical services. this study aimed to identify factors affecting the quality of medical services provided by iranian physicians.exploratory in-depth individual interviews were conducted with sixty-four physicians working in various medical institutions in iran.individ...

it is important to focus on creating opportunities for patients' participation at all levels of health systems in order to promote their ability to improve patient safety and quality of services. the general aim of this study was to determine patient safety level in tehran university of medical sciences' (tums) general hospitals, tehran, iran from patients' perspective and to determine the cont...