OBJECTIVE To examine concordance between responses to patient experience survey items evaluating doctors' interpersonal skills, and subsequent patient interview accounts of their experiences of care. DESIGN Mixed methods study integrating data from patient questionnaires completed immediately after a video-recorded face-to-face consultation with a general practitioner (GP) and subsequent inte...

In the Winter 2008 issue of The Permanente Journal, we published an interview with five CEOs and Medical Directors (Table 1) from four public hospitals and systems, which was conducted at the Spring 2007 annual meeting of the National Association of Public Hospitals (NAPH) in Boston, MA. This year, at the 2010 annual meeting of the NAPH, we revisited leaders from the same four hospitals and sys...

A group of 115 female psychiatric in-patients and out-patients were studied, using a self-report questionnaire followed by interview, for evidence of childhood sexual activity with adults. About half of the sample reported some childhood sexual experience, ranging from full sexual intercourse to sexual suggestions. Future research should study the possible role of such experience in the genesis...

The goal of video games is to challenge and entertain the players. Successful video games deliver experience that impact players on a level of arousal. Therefore undertaking a user experience (UX) study is crucial to ensure that a game achieves both critical and financial success. However, traditional usability methods (observation, subjective reporting, questionnaire, and interview) have a num...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of professionalism scenarios on the medical school admissions process from applicant and faculty perspectives. Specifically, do completing professionalism scenarios as part of the medical school interview process have an impact on both the interviewee's and the faculty's perception of the process and outcome? METHOD Ninety-one facu...

: This model aims at understanding that Personal Digital Assistant of case teacher promotes the course of teacher's teaching innovation . It adopts the research approach of focus group interview. The objects of interview are six teachers who teach Nature and Science Technology at National Elementary school in Kaohsiung. This research discovers that more and more case teachers participate teachi...