OBJECTIVE To evaluate patient characteristics and satisfaction in an outpatient service at a university hospital, aiming at obtaining subsidies for standardization of a quality assessment program. METHOD Patient-representative sample was selected. It consisted of users of the Ophthalmology Outpatient Service at the Hospital das Clínicas, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). A structur...

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks are highly dynamic systems which are very popular for content distribution in the Internet. A single peer remains in the system for an unpredictable amount of time, and the rate in which peers enter and leave the system, i.e. the churn, is often high. A user that is obtaining content from a selected peer is frequently informed that particular peer is not available an...

multidisciplinary team approach to patient management, after-care programmes and the intricacies of the referral system.We had to rely on others for the implementation of the Act. However, in addition to the initial shadowing the Mersey Care NHS Trust provided further assistance by appointing a mentor with whom we could discuss our professional difficulties. The trust also provided assistance f...

Using data collected from the first wave of a longitudinal data set collected in the late fall and winter of 1990-1991, the National Survey of Self-Care and Aging (NSSCA), we examined the extent and type of assistance older people provided to others. Age, gender, and perceived health status were the most consistent predictors of the four types of assistance: personal care, child care, volunteer...

Acknowledgments I would like to acknowledge the assistance of Roberto Ramirez who produced most of the statistical tables that were the basis for the empirical analysis in this paper. He spent a great deal of time producing these tables from the detailed 1990, Census 2000, and Census 2000 Supplemental Survey (C2SS) files and these tables were essential to making key points in this paper. I also...

Home-based peer tutoring was used to teach math skills to 4 girls with deficits in mathematics and histories of abuse or neglect. Girls living in the same home formed tutoring dyads, and each participant served as both the peer tutor and the tutee during the course of the study. At the initiation of the tutoring intervention, an expert tutor provided multiple 3-min tutoring sessions to the desi...

For the last two decades, the state has provided assistance to unemployed people wishing to enter self-employment. The emphasis of assistance has been on advice and training. Financial support has tended to be highly restricted. Yet research has indicated that low initial financing may contribute to business failure and that unemployed people face barriers to accessing commercial loans. The aim...

The general objective of the current study was to explore the experiences of elite level athletes who reported being peer mentored by other athletes during their sporting careers. The primary purpose was to identify the mentoring functions provided by athlete mentors, while the secondary purpose was to examine the outcomes related to peer mentored athletes’ (i.e., protégés) mentoring experience...

The Central Pennsylvania area referred to as the Susquehanna Valley is a rural cultural region identified by political strategists as the unpredictable and conservative area between the urban centers of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. It contains a rural population of nearly 4 million people. Although the region is served by a number of large health care systems, there has been little assistance g...

Studies of self-controlled practice have shown benefits when learners controlled feedback schedule, use of assistive devices and task difficulty, with benefits attributed to information processing and motivational advantages of self-control. Although haptic assistance serves as feedback, aids task performance and modifies task difficulty, researchers have yet to explore whether self-control ove...