BACKGROUND Effective communication, particularly at the end of life, is an essential skill for oncology nurses, but few receive formal training in this area. OBJECTIVES The aim of this article is to adapt an end-of-life care communication skills training (CST) module, originally developed for oncologists, for oncology nurses and to evaluate participants' confidence in using the communication ...

OBJECTIVE To analyse the relationship between patient satisfaction and background factors such as age, gender, health status and pain. In addition, to use background factors to create less biased ranking in comparisons of patient satisfaction between medical specialities. DESIGN A questionnaire was sent by post to patients who had recently received inpatient care at a hospital within the Coun...

Objective. Outcome measurement in mental health services is an area of considerable clinical interest and policy priority. This study sought to assess the Behaviour and Symptom Identification Scale-24 (BASIS-24©), a brief, patient self-reported measure of psychopathology and functioning, in a UK sample, including establishing population norms for comparative purposes. Methods. Participants were...

INTRODUCTION Methodologically correct assessment of patient satisfaction (PS) plays a crucial role for quality-improvement purposes. Evaluation of Iranian literature on emergency department's PS resulted in an emerging need for developing a new instrument with satisfactory psychometric properties. The present study, aimed to develop and initially validate a scale to measure PS in emergency depa...

How to characterize topological quantum phases is a fundamental issue in the broad field of matter. From dimension reduction approach, we propose concept high-order band inversion surfaces (BISs) which enable optimal schemes equilibrium by far-from-equilibrium dynamics, and further report experimental simulation. We show that characterization d-dimensional (dD) phase can be reduced lower-dimens...

BACKGROUND Health care providers do not routinely carry out brief counseling for tobacco cessation despite the evidence for its effectiveness. For this intervention to be routinely used, it must be brief, be convenient, require little investment of resources, require little specialized training, and be perceived as efficacious by providers. Technological advances hold much potential for address...