INTRODUCTION Rapid diagnostic testing has made HIV diagnosis and subsequent treatment more accessible. However, multiple factors, including improper implementation of testing strategies and clerical errors, have been reported to lead to HIV misdiagnosis. The World Health Organization has recommended HIV retesting prior to antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation which has become pertinent with s...

BACKGROUND For patients in all health-care settings HIV screening is recommended after the patient is notified that testing will be performed unless the patient declines. The nation's physicians and other health care providers should assume a much more active role in promoting HIV testing. The aim of this study was to investigate the extent to which missed opportunities for earlier HIV testing ...

Reducing initial delay of playing time, delay jitter during playing time, and network bandwidth utilization is important for multimedia streaming service. In order to achieve these two goals, our peer-to-peer multimedia caching service exploits the proximity of set of clients and temporal and spatial locality of cached streams on the clients. Peer clients, which are fully connected together, no...

This study compared palliative and non-palliative home care clients, services and providers, and described changes over a decade of health system reform (1991/92-2000/01). Complete individual-anonymous data from Alberta's home care database were analyzed. Over these 10 years, 7.0% of all home care clients were classified as palliative. The proportion of home care clients who were classified as ...

abstract service quality has been an area of interest of both researchers and practitioners in recent years. in light of such interest, two distinctive schools have contributed to service quality and customer satisfaction. the first school focuses on the role of organizations and their staff as the origin of service quality improvement while the second one incorporates customer’s participation ...

abstract background: family planning has been defined in the framework of mothers and children plan as one of primary healthcare (phc) details. besides quantity, the quality of services, particularly in terms of ethics, such as observing individuals’ privacy, is of great importance in offering family planning services. objective: a preliminary study to gather information about the degree of med...

BACKGROUND AND METHODS In locations where the genitourinary medicine (GUM) department and the family planning services (FPS) are on separate sites, studies have shown a low rate of attendance of clients referred between the sites. We developed a coupon system to allow clients referred from one site to be seen without a wait in the open-access clinic at the other site. Data from the first 5 mont...