OBJECTIVE To define a physician classification system based on practice settings and to analyze the service provision associated with those classifications. DESIGN A cross-sectional, retrospective study. SETTING Province of Quebec. PARTICIPANTS All GPs in Quebec in 2002 who had been practising for at least 2 years. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Practice setting variables were based on physician...

Objective. To analyze the impact of patients' experience of care at their usual source of primary care on their choice of point of entry into cancer investigation process, time to diagnosis, and presence of metastatic cancer at time of diagnosis. Method. A questionnaire was administered to 438 patients with cancer (breast, lung, and colorectal) between 2011 and 2013 in four oncology clinics of ...

This paper assesses aircraft susceptibility from the first principles, with respect to the threat posed by passively guided infrared homing missiles; with an objective of gaining insight into the comprehensiveness of the relationship between aircraft susceptibility and aircraft infrared signature level. The conventional criterion of aircraft susceptibility assessment based on its lock-on envelo...

The overall goal of the Emerald garbage collection scheme is to provide an e cient \on-they" garbage collection in a distributed object-based system that collects all garbage, and that is robust to partial failures. The rst goal is to collect all garbage in the entire distributed system; we say that the collection is comprehensive in contrast to conservative collectors that only collect most ga...

BACKGROUND Primary health care system is the basic core of public service provision in Iran. This study aimed to assess clients' satisfaction with primary health care in Tehran, the capital of Iran, as a metropolitan. METHODS Through a cross-sectional study in 2009-10, four urban primary health care clinics were selected through stratified random sampling. Four hundred participants were inter...

Stand-alone environmental indicators based on life cycle assessment (LCA), such as the carbon footprint and water footprint, are becoming increasingly popular as a means of directing sustainable production and consumption. However, individually, these metrics violate the principle of LCA known as comprehensiveness and do not necessarily provide an indication of overall environmental impact. In ...

The understanding of cell cycle regulation benefited greatly from omic approaches. Because the cell cycle engine relies heavily on proteins, proteomic methods play a key role in identification of cell cycle players. The proteomic approach delivers an enormous volume of data, but it often lacks comprehensiveness. To ensure the comprehensiveness of results the discovery of novel proteins must be ...

BGP prefix hijacking is a critical threat to Internet organizations and users. Despite the availability of several defense approaches (ranging from RPKI to popular third-party services), none of them solves the problem adequately in practice. They suffer from: (i) lack of detection comprehensiveness, allowing sophisticated attackers to evade detection, (ii) limited accuracy, especially in the c...

OBJECTIVE This study used a recent patient survey to examine the relationship between having a usual source of care (USC) and the quality of ambulatory medical care experiences in Taiwan, where there is universal health insurance coverage. RESEARCH DESIGN, SUBJECTS, AND MEASURES The study design was a cross-sectional survey of 879 patients in Taichung County, Taiwan. Children and adults visit...

OBJECTIVE A small number of patients frequently using the emergency department (ED) account for a disproportionate amount of the total ED workload and are considered using this service inappropriately. The aim of this study was to identify prospectively personal characteristics and experience of organizational and relational dimensions of primary care that predict frequent use of ED. METHODS ...