The Consequences of technostress for end users in organizations: Conceptual development and empirical validation" (2008). T he research reported in this paper studies the phenomenon of technostress, that is, stress experienced by end users of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), and examines its influence on their job satisfaction, commitment to the organization, and intention to ...

BACKGROUND Service satisfaction is integral to quality of care and measures are therefore considered important indicators of quality. Patient's responses to their experiences of using services are under-researched in the context of mental healthcare in low income countries. Our aim was to use mixed methods to develop a new measure of satisfaction for use among consumers of the new models of men...

Implementation of an electronic medical record system increases efficiency of health services, quality of care and patient satisfaction. Successful implementation depends on multiple factors; one of which is users’ response to EMR. This study aimed to assess physicians and nurses’ views on the use, quality and user satisfaction with EMR at a tertiary care center in Karachi, Pakistan. Since its ...

One commonly acknowledged factor in the successful implementation of any application or information system is user satisfaction. This paper studied users' judgments on a new technology in an educational context. This study found that, while perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use each had a positive correlation with user satisfaction, there are likely to be additional factors that contri...

PURPOSE To compare PubMed Clinical Queries and UpToDate regarding the amount and speed of information retrieval and users' satisfaction. METHOD A cross-over randomized trial was conducted in February 2009 in Tehran University of Medical Sciences that included 44 year-one or two residents who participated in an information mastery workshop. A one-hour lecture on the principles of information m...

The purpose of this study was to describe the impact of gastrointestinal events on patient-reported outcomes and health care resource use among Asia-Pacific women with postmenopausal osteoporosis. The results of this study show that gastrointestinal events decreased adherence, treatment satisfaction, and quality of life in Asia-Pacific women with postmenopausal osteoporosis. PURPOSE This stud...

BACKGROUND User reported experiences and satisfaction are increasingly used as basis for quality indicators in the health sector. However, there is limited understanding of factors associated with user reported experiences and satisfaction with casualty clinics. METHODS A random sample of 542 patients that had contacted any of three casualty clinics from mid April to mid May 2008 was mailed a...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The user's satisfaction with information system in fact denotes the extent the user is satisfied with the system's achievement in fulfilling his/her information requirements. This study tries to explore the users' satisfaction with hospital information systems (HISs) based on DeLone and McLean's model focusing on the medical-teaching hospitals of Isfahan city. METHODOLO...

This study reports the findings of a usability test conducted to examine users’ interaction with two different learning object metadata-driven search result interfaces. The first was a clustered metadata surrogate interface (where metadata elements were divided into sections), and the second a linear or single metadata surrogate interface (where all metadata elements were listed in a single rec...