conclusions the obtained results showed that hcv infection was an alarming problem among opiate users in the eastern part of turkey. it is suggested to rapidly diagnose the infected persons; thus preventive measures and appropriate control may limit further transmission of these infections. background hepatitis b, hepatitis c and hiv infections constitute serious healthcare problems worldwide. ...

For visualization of multivariable data, multivariate cube meets with the limitation of screen and human vision. Retinal variables are integrated into multivariate cube to enhance its visual characteristics. The selective feature of variables and associative feature of the values of the same variable are improved with the integration of retinal variable into the set of visual variables. The sel...

Assessing care quality and performance is essential to improve healthcare processes and population health management. However, due to bad system design and lack of access to required data, this assessment is often delayed or not done at all. The goal of our research is to investigate an advanced analytics platform that enables healthcare quality and performance assessment. We used a user-center...

Objective: Healthcare professionals and addiction programs play important roles in tobacco use prevention and cessation activities. In this study, we analyzed the prevalence of tobacco use and the impact of smoking cessation advice through programs/professionals among a nationally representative sample of youth in India. Methods: The data were obtained from the Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS...

In this commentary, the idea of closing the gap between knowing and doing through closing the gap between academics and practitioners is explored. The two communities approach to knowledge production and use, has predominated within healthcare, resulting in a separation between the worlds of research and practice, and, therefore, between its producers and users. Meaningful collaborations betwee...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate user satisfaction with psychosocial healthcare services. METHODS Qualitative and quantitative study conducted in psychosocial healthcare services in the states of Paraná, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul, Southern Brazil, in 2006. The study combined quantitative and qualitative methods. Quantitative epidemiological data from a cross-sectional study including 1,162 us...

OBJECTIVES To examine the handling system for patient complaints and to identify existing barriers that are associated with effective management of patient complaints in China. SETTING Key stakeholders of the handling system for patient complaints at the national, Shanghai municipal and hospital levels in China. PARTICIPANTS 35 key informants including policymakers, hospital managers, healt...

This study explores the life and treatment experience of people in the United Kingdom with fibromyalgia in order to inform the development of treatments which are both effective and acceptable to users. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 14 participants with interpretative phenomenological analysis used as the theoretical framework and analytical method. The themes identified were as fo...