OBJECTIVE To describe cancer patients' experience of the role of family physicians (FPs) in their care. DESIGN Mail survey of a random sample of patients from the Manitoba Cancer Registry. SETTING Manitoba. PARTICIPANTS Two hundred two adults, 6 to 12 months after diagnosis. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Proportion needing different kinds of help from FPs and their rating of FPs' response; FACT...

abstract. in recent years several studies have shown that  control charts with adaptive schemes or double sampling plans detect both small and moderate shifts in the process mean more quickly than the traditional shewhart  chart. in the classical double sampling  chart, the difference between two points were placed in the central region of first stage was not considered. in this study, a new co...

in the present work‎, ‎a new stochastic algorithm is proposed to solve multiple dimensional fredholm integral equations of the second kind‎. ‎the solution of the‎ integral equation is described by the neumann series expansion‎. ‎each term of this expansion can be considered as an expectation which is approximated by a continuous markov chain monte carlo method‎. ‎an algorithm is proposed to sim...

OBJECTIVES In China, the rate of downward referral is relatively low, as most people are unwilling to be referred from hospitals to community health systems (CHSs). The aim of this study was to explore the effect of doctors' and patients' practices and attitudes on their willingness for downward referral and the relationship between downward referral and sociodemographic characteristics. METH...

INTRODUCTION Health care delivery systems in rural areas face numerous challenges in meeting the community's needs. This study aimed to describe barriers of health care process in rural societies in Iran. METHODS In this qualitative study, 26 participants (21 rural health care providers and five rural patients) were selected through purposive sampling. The data was collected via semi-structur...

We provide a short overview of Importance Sampling – a popular sampling tool used for Monte Carlo computing. We discuss its mathematical foundation and properties that determine its accuracy in Monte Carlo approximations. We review the fundamental developments in designing efficient IS for practical use. This includes parametric approximation with optimization based adaptation, sequential sampl...

Technologies that are ready-to-use and adaptable in real time to customers’ individual needs influencing the supply chain of future. This study proposes a framework for an innovative sustainable real-time fashion system (RTFS) between enterprises, designers, consumers 3D clothing production systems, using information communication technology, artificial intelligence (AI), virtual environments. ...

Financial markets now operate quite differently. Due to the vast array of savings and investment firms, products they offer, terms conditions investments, numerous complicated laws regulations that are in place, investing money has become a highly complex process. Most investors, despite remarkable growth economy high-income levels living metropolitan cities found unaware about avenues rules re...