j Abstract After legislative changes in 1978, Italian psychiatry underwent a thorough overhaul, with the gradual closure of all Mental Hospitals. A nation-wide network of Departments of Mental Health now deliver outpatient and inpatient care, but also run semi-residential and residential facilities (the latter with 2.9 beds per 10,000 inhabitants). Hospital care is delivered through small psych...

OBJECTIVE To explore what domains of work are important for job satisfaction among doctors, nurses and auxiliaries and to discuss differences between professional groups in the perspective of micro team culture. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey data from hospital staff working clinically at inpatient hospital wards in Norway in 2000. MEASURES Linear regression models predicting job satisfactio...

INTRODUCTION Patient satisfaction is one indicator of healthcare quality. Few studies have examined the inpatient experiences in resource-scarce environments in sub-Saharan Africa. METHODS To examine patient satisfaction on the public medical wards at a Kenyan referral hospital, we performed a cross-sectional survey focused on patients' satisfaction with medical information and their relation...

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to determine the level of job satisfaction of pharmacists working in different settings and to measure the extent to which place of employment influenced levels of job satisfaction. Methods: A Web-based survey questionnaire was administered to a nationwide sample of currently practicing pharmacists in the U.S. Results: Most respondents were satisfied wi...

BACKGROUND Patients' opinion regarding services has acquired great importance. Patient satisfaction is playing an increasingly important role in quality of care reforms and health-care delivery. The study aimed to measure patient satisfaction in a tertiary care hospital in order to know the patients' perspectives and expectations of the services and make appropriate improvements accordingly. ...

BACKGROUND The Patient Satisfaction Questionnaire (PSQ) is an assessment tool used to evaluate patients' perspectives of their doctor's communication and interpersonal skills. The present pilot study investigated whether the PSQ could be administered successfully in a hospice inpatient setting and if it is an acceptable tool for completion by patients and relatives in this context. METHODS Th...

AIMS To synthesise published evidence of the impacts of introducing hospital based alternatives to acute paediatric admission. METHODS Systematic review of studies of interventions for children with acute medical problems. Main outcome measures were: admission or discharge, unscheduled returns to hospital, satisfaction of parents and general practitioners, effects on health service activity, ...

BACKGROUND Ambulatory cleft lip repair after its acceptance in developed countries is also becoming popular in developing world. This study was performed to compares the outcomes of ambulatory cleft lip repair with the inpatient group for adult patients. Objectives were to compare outcome after ambulatory and inpatient cleft lip surgery for adults with respect to perioperative complications (Ea...

The fields of health services, medical informatics, and human–computer interaction have begun to investigate electronic approaches to providing detailed health information to patients. Building on a custom Personal Health Record portal infrastructure that we have developed to provide access to real-time medication information for hospitalized patients, we are currently engaging clinicians and p...

PROBLEM Child and adolescent psychiatric units serve the highest risk, most vulnerable populations in the mental health delivery system. This article describes the integration of a strength-based approach with a traditional, medical model of psychiatric care on an acute inpatient unit. A strength-based framework allows for increased focus on exploring patients' goals, strengths, relationships, ...