OBJECTIVE To determine the missed appointment rate and evaluate the factors related to appointment adherence in adolescent patients, based on the patients' characters and services provided. MATERIAL AND METHOD All medical records in adolescent clinic at Siriraj Hospital between 2004 and 2009 were reviewed Patients that visited the clinic at least twice with the follow-up visit order were recr...

Purpose The authors sought to identify variables associated with MD-PhD program graduates' academic medicine careers. Methods We analyzed data for a national cohort of MD-PhD program graduates from 2000 to 2005, using multivariable logistic regression to identify independent predictors of full-time academic medicine faculty appointment through 2013. Results Of 1,860 MD-PhD program graduates in ...

BACKGROUND Access to health services is one of the Batho Pele ('people first') values and principles of the South African government since 1997. This necessitated some changes around public service systems, procedures, attitudes and behaviour. The challenges of providing health care to rural geographically spread populations include variations in socio-economic status, transport opportunities, ...

Background: The main objective of nursing is to provide comprehensive nursing care that is appropriate to patients’ needs. However, the incidence of missed nursing care compromises the provision of comprehensive and safe care and threatens patients’ lives. Thus, this in-depth qualitative study aimed to explore nurses’ experiences of missed care and factors affecting it. The aim of this study wa...

Targeting the Use of Reminders and Notifications for Uptake by Populations (TURNUP): a systematic review and evidence synthesis Sionnadh McLean,1* Melanie Gee,2 Andrew Booth,3 Sarah Salway,3 Susan Nancarrow,4 Mark Cobb5 and Sadiq Bhanbhro2 1Faculty of Health and Wellbeing, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK 2Centre for Health and Social Care Research, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffi...

BACKGROUND Studies have been conducted in developing countries using SMS to communicate with patients to reduce the number of missed appointments and improve retention in treatment, however; very few have been scaled up. One possible reason for this could be that patients or staff are dissatisfied with the method in some way. This paper reports a study of patients' and healthcare workers' (HCW)...

BACKGROUND While primary care physicians play a pivotal role in the treatment of depression, collaboration between primary care and psychiatry in clinical research has been limited. Primary care settings provide unique opportunities to improve the methodology of psychiatric clinical trials, by providing more generalizable and less treatment-resistant patients. We examined the feasibility of ide...