repeating x-ray radiographs, as a common problem in radiology units, represent additional, non-billable costs due to increased film, chemistry, and equipment use as well as increased personnel time. furthermore, patients receive additional radiation exposure from repetitions and must remain on the premises until the second exam is completed. compounding the overt negative financial impact on th...

the key objective of this research is to test the effect of trust based on cognition and affection aspect, regard to 3 main issues as psychological differences, sale manager's marketing experience and sale manager's education level on perceived relationship effectiveness, dysfunctional conflict and functional conflict. the methodology based on descriptive researches and main tool for ...

Richter, J. P., & Muhlestein, D. B. (in press). Patient experience and hospital profitability: Is there a link? Health Care Management Review. To assess whether, independent of a direct financial impact, a more positive patient experience is associated with increased profitability.  A positive patient experience is associated with increased profitability, and a negative patient experience is e...

The current study examined age differences in daily stressors, positive events (uplifts), and their associations with emotional experience among healthy older women. Women (N = 101, 63-93 years old) reported their daily experiences across 1 week. Older age was related to fewer stressors and less frequent negative affect. However, the association between negative affect and age was no longer sig...

Prolonged diagnostic intervals may negatively affect the patient experience of subsequent cancer care, but evidence about this assertion is sparse. We analysed data from 73 462 respondents to two English Cancer Patient Experience Surveys to examine whether patients with three or more (3+) pre-referral consultations were more likely to report negative experiences of subsequent care compared with...

BACKGROUND Prior meta-analyses indicated that people with schizophrenia show impairment in trait hedonic capacity but retain their state hedonic experience (valence) in laboratory-based assessments. Little is known about what is the extent of differences for state positive emotional experience (especially arousal) between people with schizophrenia and healthy controls. It is also not clear whet...

PURPOSE Communication has been researched either as a set of behaviors or as a facet of the patient-physician relationship, often leading to conflicting results. To determine the relationship between these perspectives, we examined shared decision making (SDM) and the subjective experience of partnership for patients and physicians in primary care. METHODS From a convenience sample of experie...

Spontaneous facial expressions were found to provide accurate information about more specific aspects of emotional experience than just the pleasant versus unpleasant distinction. Videotape records were gathered while subjects viewed motion picture films and then reported on their subjective experience. A new technique for measuring facial movement isolated a particular type of smile that was r...

OBJECTIVE This study examined gender differences in family, peer, partner, and mental health characteristics related to sexual experience among emotionally and behaviorally disordered students in therapeutic day schools, a population at elevated risk for negative sexual health outcomes. METHODS A total of 417 13- to 20-year-old adolescents reported on their family functioning, peer and partne...