INTRODUCTION Among the chronically ill there is a tendency for non-compliance with medical recommendations, which is often due to low satisfaction with the offered treatment. Satisfaction with Asthma Treatment Questionnaire (SATQ) is a questionnaire for measuring satisfaction with the inhalation treatment of asthma in patients of more than 18 years of age. SATQ is a standardized tool that has n...

We generalize the elegant bijective proof of the Chung Feller theorem from the paper of Young-Ming Chen [The Chung-Feller theorem revisited, Disc. Math. 308 (2008), 1328–1329].

OBJECTIVE For over a decade, out-of-hours primary care in the Netherlands has been provided by general practitioner (GP) cooperatives. In the past years, quality improvements have been made and patients have become acquainted with the service. This may have increased patient satisfaction. The objective of this study was to examine changes in patient satisfaction with GP cooperatives over time. ...

the purpose of the present study was to examine the psychometric features (construct reliability and validity) of baker’s  (2008) 13 - item work  related fondness questionnaire. so  260  employees of  iran air craft construction company were selected to respond to the questionnaire through multiple clustered random sampling. the exploring factor structure via varimax   rotation  in work  relate...

This study investigates the navigational patterns and learning achievement of university students with different cognitive styles, on hypermedia learning environments using paging or scrolling. The global–local subscales of Sternberg’s Thinking Styles Inventory, two hypermedia, one using paging, the other using scrolling, a multiple choice achievement test, and a questionnaire to collect the st...

P atient satisfaction with the health care provided by doctors is of great significance. Thus, it is important to identify weaknesses in systems to aid improvement through the patient’s eyes. This may be done by utilizing the Patient Satisfaction Questionnaire Short Form (PSQ-18), a concise, validated tool that may be applied to various settings, as well as comparing interventions. Today, we ar...

BACKGROUND Primary health care services are the most frequently used in the health care system. Consumer feedback on these services is important. Research in this area relates mainly to doctor-patient relationships which fails to reflect the multidisciplinary nature of primary health care. AIM A pilot study aimed to examine the feasibility of using a patient satisfaction questionnaire designe...