introduction: one of the important aspects in high quality health care system is delivering health services in an appropriate way which can lead to development of the systems. patient satisfaction is a quality indicator that has the potential to provide valuable information about the care delivered by an emergency medical services system (ems). this indicator is considered as an important marke...

This study aimed to evaluate the adequacy of the Family Health Program's (FHP) coverage indicator, calculated by using the estimated number of people served by the FHP team, obtained from a national standard. The study included all the Brazilian counties (municipalities) that adopted the FHP strategy from 1998 to 2006. The analytical methods were Pearson's correlation, Lin's concordance correla...

OBJECTIVE To identify variables associated with hospitalizations sensitive to primary care. METHODS A hospital morbidity survey was conducted using a random sample of 660 patients hospitalized in clinical and surgical wards of hospitals that had service agreements with the Brazilian National Health System (SUS), in the municipality of Montes Claros, Southeastern Brazil, between 2007 and 2008....

The evolution of duplicate genes has been a topic of broad interest. Here, we propose that the conservation of gene family size is a good indicator of the rate of sequence evolution and some other biological properties. By comparing the human-chimpanzee-macaque orthologous gene families with and without family size conservation, we demonstrate that genes with family size conservation evolve mor...

OBJECTIVES To assess the genetic risk of open-angle glaucoma (OAG) in individuals by calculating a family score (FS), which summarizes the information of all relatives including their disease status, age, sex, and degree of kinship and to examine the genetic contribution to OAG with and without an increased intraocular pressure. METHODS Case and control probands, derived from the Rotterdam St...

Recently, two new indicators (Equalized Mean-based Normalized Proportion Cited, EMNPC; Mean-based Normalized Proportion Cited, MNPC) were proposed which are intended for sparse scientometrics data. The indicators compare the proportion of mentioned papers (e.g. on Facebook) of a unit (e.g., a researcher or institution) with the proportion of mentioned papers in the corresponding fields and publ...

Family background or home environment can be an indicator of how people’s engagement with the community is manifested. Using Stress Model (FSM) as a lens to evaluate external and internal family impact on child useful tool in supporting children from different social economic backgrounds. There has been growing body work demonstrating stress youth, specifically via FSM cultural groups...