INTRODUCTION A national audit of waiting times in England's genitourinary medicine clinics measures patient access. Data are collected by patient questionnaires, which rely upon patients' recollection of first contact with health services, often several days previously. The aim of this study was to assess the accuracy of patient-reported waiting times. METHODS Data on true waiting times were ...

Time and expected outcome are two ubiquitous factors contributing to decision-making. However, it is unclear how they interact to influence motor responses. When two differential reward outcomes are expected at the end of a waiting period, behavioral bias is consistently induced, manifested as shorter latencies for motor responses associated with the preferred reward. To examine how this bias d...

Most North Dakota sheep production scenarios require substantially more resources, such as feed, labor, and facilities during late gestation and lactation. Early identification of pregnancy and pregnancy rate in sheep provides managers several options to increase flock productivity. First, removal of non-pregnant ewes can increase available resources for pregnant ewes. Second, identification of...

BACKGROUND Subfecundity is a frequent and often serious problem and it is important to identify its preventable determinants and to monitor fecundity over time. Since follow-up studies are difficult and expensive to conduct, time to pregnancy (TTP) in pregnant women is often used as a surrogate measure of fecundity. TTP data can be retrieved at low costs and they need no valid population regist...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to assess ethnic differences in Emergency Department (ED) waiting times between Jewish and Arab children in a tertiary childrens' hospital in Israel. METHODS This was a retrospective cohort study of all children who were admitted to the pediatric ED of the largest hospital in northern Israel, between January 2011 and December 2015. Univariate and multi...

The most pervasive eligibility-related problems encountered by low-income disabled persons in gaining access to Medicaid and Medicare are reviewed in this article. A series of options for restructuring program eligibility requirements are presented, with particular attention to improving the plight of the low-income disabled worker during the 24-month waiting period for Medicare. Options for Me...

Background Waiting period of fertility treatment is stressful, therefore it is necessary to use effective coping strategies to cope with waiting period of intrauterine insemination (IUI) treatment. Objective The aim of this study was comparing the effect of the positive reappraisal coping intervention (PRCI) with the problem-solving skills training (PSS) on the coping strategies of IUI waitin...