Introduction. Processes and practices for information management service delivery, including retention, retrieval and disposal of documents and records, are not easily quantified for benchmarking and performance improvement. Method. A mainly qualitative approach was applied to evaluate records management services in oil and gas sector organizations. A case study, with data gathered from eleven ...

BACKGROUND There is little understanding of the reasons for the limited communication between patients and conventional healthcare professionals regarding patients' use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). The purpose of this study is to explore the predictors of outpatients' decision to disclose their use of natural products to conventional healthcare professionals. METHODS A mix...

OBJECTIVE An emerging trend in qualitative research is to use individual participant data to stimulate narratives in interviews. This article describes the method of the data-prompted interview (DPI) and highlights its potential benefits and challenges. METHOD DPIs use personal ecological data gathered prior to the interview to stimulate discussion during the interview. Various forms of data ...

The purpose of this study was to explore senior nursing students' perceptions toward the nursing profession and their experiences in clinical practicum in Taiwan. This study used semistructured interview guides and unstructured face-to-face dialogue with the participants based on a qualitative method. A purposive sample with a snowball method from a baccalaureate nursing program in Southern Tai...

In this study, we investigated for the first time whether flotation-REST might be used for treating chronic whiplash-associated disorders (WAD). Six women and one man, all diagnosed by licensed physicians as having chronic whiplash-associated disorder, participated. Two of the participants were beginners with regard to flotation-REST (2 or 3 treatments), and five of them had experienced between...

objectives: studying the situation of providing services for people with disability are very important and in current situation which is dominate on system providing rehabilitation services in iran, private rehabilitation centers can be the best and the most important focus for this study. methods: this research performed by qualitative method and with phenomenology type, and purposeful samplin...

Coffee is a typical drink with substantial increasing in global. With the growing popularity of coffee consumption, raw materials of coffee bean are mostly imported and are increased year by year in Taiwan. The study is firstly based on a qualitative research method of an in-depth interview, discussion, field investigation, and analyzing environment of coffee industry in Taiwan to realize the p...

The perspectives of at-risk adolescent clients can play an important role in informing treatment services. The current study examines qualitative interview data from 15 young women with histories of maltreatment. Using a semi-structured qualitative interview approach, we asked the women to think retrospectively about their treatment experiences as adolescent girls. Results highlight the need fo...