In improving the quality of hospital services, efforts have been made to implement patient safety, one which is seek involvement through role nurses in implementing New Patient Orientation SOP. The purpose this study was analyze implementation orientation soup (new patients) for safety at 'Aisyiyah Kudus Hospital. Qualitative research conducted with an action design. data carried out in-depth i...

This study investigated the extent to which the individual orientations of physicians and patients and the congruence between them are associated with patient satisfaction. A survey was mailed to 400 physicians and 1020 of their patients. All respondents filled out the Patient-Practitioner Orientation Scale, which measures the roles that doctors and patients believe each should play in the cour...

aim: considering the fundamental role of parents' function and family dynamics including the importance role of family communication pattern on preventing early-onset substance use in children, the present study aimed to determine the correlation between family communication pattern and mothers' preventive behavioral intention regarding preventing early-onset substance use in children...

The effects oj clinician theoretical orientation and patient explanatory bias (implicit orientation) were assessed in a 3 X 3 factorial design. Behavioral, cognitive, and ps\chodynamic clinical trainees viewed a videotaped intake interview with a female actress who explained her fear of going on elevators according to one of three explanatory biases: learned reactions, faulty thoughts, or under...

BACKGROUND The 2008-2009 subprime mortgage crisis was catastrophic, not only for the global economy but for families across the social spectrum. The resultant economic upheaval threatened the livelihoods, well-being, and health of many citizens, who were often unsure where to turn for help. At this critical juncture, public broadcasting stations worked to connect viewers to support resources th...

The relation between auditory acuity, somatosensory acuity and the magnitude of produced sibilant contrast was investigated with data from 18 participants. To measure auditory acuity, stimuli from a synthetic sibilant continuum ([s]-[ʃ]) were used in a four-interval, two-alternative forced choice adaptive-staircase discrimination task. To measure somatosensory acuity, small plastic domes with g...

Prevention has been a main issue of recent policy orientations in health care. This renews the interest on how different organizational designs and the definition of payment schemes to providers may affect the incentives to provide preventive health care. We present, both the normative and the positive analyses of the change from independent providers to integrated services. We show the evaluat...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether the addition of discharge standard illustrated cards improves understanding of patients in the emergency room. METHODS We conducted a prospective, randomized, interventional study with 228 patients discharged from the emergency department. All patients were interviewed and tested for the level of understanding of discharge instructions. Some of them received the...