Background and aims: Visit quality is a crucial component of patient-physician interaction that its inadequacy can negatively influence the diagnosis and treatment efficiency. The waiting time and visit length are important determinants of quality in the outpatient care setting. Thus, the aim of this study was to determine waiting time and visit length and to compare them befor...

This paper compares the perspicacity, appropriateness and preference of web browser icons from leading software providers with those of a culturespecific design. This online study was conducted in Taiwan and involved 103 participants, who were given three sets of web browser icons to review, namely Microsoft Internet Explorer, Macintosh Safari, and culturally specific icons created using the Cu...

This study investigated early intervention occupational therapists' use of strategies to teach caregivers. A sample of 40 videotapes made by early intervention occupational therapists was randomly selected from an archival videotape data set of provider home visits. The sample included 20 videotapes illustrating traditional services and 20 videotapes illustrating therapists providing participat...

METHODS. The selected families were given the option of increased care encompassing nurse care management and home visits. QI assessment centered on parent interviews at enrollment and at 6and 12-month contacts. Administrative hospital information was used to evaluate ED visits and hospitalizations at enrollment and 1 to 2 years after enrollment. Hospital expenditures of the program were compar...

The multimedial capacities of the last generation computers meet the needs of the recent, new impulse to catalogue, restore and preserve the archaeological patrimony. In this paper we propose an easy-to-use authoring tool suitable to a) help the user in setting up an exhibition or a museum in such a way to match different criteria and satisfy user-defined or structure constraints; and b) prepar...

1. This document is DS19, one of a series of the Animal Science Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Original publication date March 1988. Reviewed June 2003. Visit the EDIS Web Site at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu. 2. B. Harris, Jr., extension dairy specialist, Dairy Science Department, Cooperative Extension Service,...