aim: patients' satisfaction (ps) is a dominant concept in medical care, due to the gap in the literature on persian version of ps instruments, this study has conducted with aim to analyze the validity and reliability of self-designed najmiyeh inpatient satisfaction questionnaire (nisq). methods: this study was carried out on 247 inpatients that came in najmiyeh subspecialty hospital in tehran (...

BACKGROUND User reported experiences and satisfaction are increasingly used as basis for quality indicators in the health sector. However, there is limited understanding of factors associated with user reported experiences and satisfaction with casualty clinics. METHODS A random sample of 542 patients that had contacted any of three casualty clinics from mid April to mid May 2008 was mailed a...

BACKGROUND This study aimed at determining the job satisfaction level of the staff in Shahroud University of Medical Sciences (SUMS), northern Iran, and its influential factors.                         METHODS In this descriptive study, conducted in 2008, the participants were 384 workers in SUMS selected through simple random sampling procedure. The par-ticipants received a 33-item questionn...

OBJECTIVE Patient satisfaction is an important outcome measure for evaluating the quality of medical care. It is remarkable that consistently high satisfaction ratings have been reported over the last 30 years. There are indications that the time point of administration of a patient satisfaction questionnaire has an influence on satisfaction ratings. This study aimed at investigating whether th...

The aims of this study were to assess the quality of life (QOL) in people with spinal cord injury (SCI) following the earthquake in China (2008) and to identify the most important areas of rehabilitation. All study participants (14 people with SCI) completed a closedquestion social questionnaire, Life Satisfaction Questionnaire, and Aims of Rehabilitation Questionnaire. The most satisfying area...

Yaoping Chen, Fengde Chen, and Zhong Li College of Mathematics and Computer Science, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, China Correspondence should be addressed to Fengde Chen, [email protected] Received 6 May 2008; Revised 8 September 2008; Accepted 22 November 2008 Recommended by Juan Jose Nieto We study the dynamic behaviors of a general discrete nonautonomous system of plankton allel...

In many situations, the existence of several equilibrium points in a dynamical system makes its dynamics more complex and allows some special structures. Examples include the well-known multiscroll attractors ([Wang, 2009; Qi et al., 2008; Liu & Chen, 2004; Li, 2008; Wang et al., 2009; Lü et al., 2008; Yu et al., 2006; Yu et al., 2008, 2010a; Wang & Chen, 2012] and references therein) such as c...

abstract background: patient satisfaction is a key indicator of the quality and effectiveness of a therapeutic method. assessing the satisfaction of patients undergoing homeopathic therapy is essential in the early steps of educating the community, if suitable outcomes are to be achieved. materials and methods: this descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted in 2008 on 125 patients from th...