The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between dental clinic credibility and patient satisfaction with regular dental check-ups, to compare the level of satisfaction of patients who had regular check-ups with those who did not, and to identify factors associated with regular dental checkups. Thirty-nine private dental clinics in 17 prefectures throughout Japan participated in...

the patient’s satisfaction as an important indicator evaluates the process of care and is a valid method for standardization of hospital services. this cross-sectional descriptive study has done to assess patient satisfaction of hospital services (shahed medical affiliated hospitals). in this study, 500 patients selected randomly and their satisfaction was measured by a standardized questionnai...

We assessed the safety of insulin lispro in gestational, type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus, analysing 635 pregnancies over a period of 7 years. We also evaluated patient satisfaction, sending an internationally-accepted anonymous diabetes treatment satisfaction questionnaire to 22 patients (three type 1, 19 gestational diabetes) who received regular and lispro insulin in successive pregnancie...

BACKGROUND The objectives of this study were to describe changes in physical activity profiles of Korean patients after TKA and to determine whether the postoperative physical activity level is influenced by patient socio-demographic factors and postoperative functional outcomes. We also sought to determine whether regular postoperative physical activity is associated with greater patient satis...

In this paper, we study the efficiency of emergent constraint satisfaction in small-world and random agent networks. We find that emergent constraint satisfaction in a small-world network is less efficient than in some other networks (e.g., regular networks). Further, we find that this finding holds in almost all random networks. Based on these observations, we study the relationship between th...

BACKGROUND Regular intake of medicines prevents hospitalization and improves treatment outcomes in patients with chronic diseases; however, requires good patient-physician communication. Yet, this communication is often insufficient and characterized by misunderstandings. This paper aimed to explore whether a training session on medication counseling for general practitioners (GPs) can improve ...

Constraint Programming is an attractive approach for solving AI planning problems by modelling them as Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSPs). However, formulating effective constraint models of complex planning problems is challenging, and CSPs resulting from standard approaches often require further enhancement to perform well. Common subexpression elimination is a general technique for impr...

Constraint Programming is an attractive approach for solving AI planning problems by modelling them as Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSPs). However, formulating effective constraint models of complex planning problems is challenging, and CSPs resulting from standard approaches often require further enhancement to perform well. Common subexpression elimination is a computationally cheap and ...

One way of studying a relational structure is to investigate functions which are related to that structure and which leave certain aspects of the structure invariant. Examples are the automorphism group, the self-embedding monoid, the endomorphism monoid, or the polymorphism clone of a structure. Such functions can be particularly well understood when the relational structure is countably infin...