CONTEXT We originally described the hospitalist model of inpatient care in 1996; since then, the model has experienced tremendous growth. This growth has important clinical, financial, educational, and policy implications. OBJECTIVES To review data regarding the effect of hospitalists on resource use, quality of care, satisfaction, and teaching; and to analyze the impact of hospitalists on th...

Effective nurse shift-to-shift handover is a prerequisite for high-quality inpatient care. Combining person-centeredness with the need for improved handover rituals, we introduced and evaluated person-centered handover (PCH) in an oncological inpatient setting. PCH is the shift-to-shift nursing report performed together with the patient according to a set structure focused on patient participat...

Patients are the main object who must get best service at a hospital, because quality of hospital services determines recovery patient and hospital. The has two components, namely fulfillment predetermined standards satisfaction. Hospitals provide that focus on Improving health can be started by evaluating each element plays role in shaping application evaluation measures to care is needed as a...

Aggressiveness is a frequent and problematic aspect of the treatment of forensic patients. This study examines the correlation of aggressiveness and its subtypes with quality of life enjoyment and satisfaction, personality dimensions and family functioning. The research is conducted on 99 psychiatric patients diagnosed with schizophrenia or psychotic disorder similar to schizophrenia (F20-F29) ...

Self-esteem stability describes fluctuations in the level of self-esteem experienced by individuals over a brief period of time. In recent decades, self-esteem stability has repeatedly been shown to be an important variable affecting psychological functioning. However, measures of self-esteem stability are few and lacking in validity. In this paper, we present the Self-Esteem Stability Scale (S...

background routine screening for distress is internationally recommended as a necessary standard for good cancer care given its high prevalence and negative consequences on quality of life. this study attempts to support validation of distress thermometer (dt) in shiraz, iran and in the second step to investigate privilege/priority of dt over other referent criterion measures. material and meth...

OBJECTIVE We intended to determine the reliability of a brief life satisfaction scale in a sample of patients with chronic diseases, and to analyze its external validity. METHODS Reliability and factor analysis of the 8-item "Brief Multidimensional Life Satisfaction Scale" (BMLSS) were performed according to standard procedures. The test sample contained 979 individuals (mean age 54+/-11 year...

patients and methods the current methodological study went through three consecutive phases. in the first phase, the concept of sexual satisfaction was defined and analyzed by the hybrid model approach. in the second phase, an item pool was generated by the findings of the first phase. finally, the psychometric properties of the scale were evaluated in the third phase. all data analyses were pe...

BACKGROUND We previously reported T cell deficits and pro-inflammatory gene activation in circulating monocytes of two cohorts of bipolar disorder (BD) patients, a cohort of postpartum psychosis patients and in bipolar offspring. Pro-inflammatory gene activation occurred in two clusters of mutually correlating genes, cluster 1 for inflammation-related cytokines/factors, cluster 2 for motility, ...