requires varying degrees of care and intervention because it affects individuals in different ways. To improve the quality and safety of care for patients with complex strokes—who require more specialized diagnostic testing, interventions, and care than those receiving care at Primary Stroke Centers (PSCs)—The Joint Commission developed a new Disease-Specific Care Advanced Certification program...

investigating the reliability and validity of customer satisfaction questionnaire of urban health therapeutic unites mosazadeh h* , sadagianifar a , baniadam t received: 11 aug, 2010 accepted: 25 oct, 2010 abstract background & aims: customer satisfaction is important and is evaluated through questionnaires. as the current questioners are not satisfactory, this study was performed to design a h...

OBJECTIVE To identify the scope and the characteristics of fall-related traumas in urgent care centers in Sergipe, Brazil and to verify potential associations among the following variables: gender, age, and where the event occurred. METHOD This descriptive, cross-sectional study with a quantitative approach was conducted in the urgent care centers of two public referral hospitals in the state...

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BACKGROUND There is a great disparity in spatial accessibility to hospital care between ethnic minority and non-minority regions in China. Being one of the basic social demands, spatial access to hospital care in minority regions draws increasing attention in China in recent years. We performed this study to have a better understanding of spatial access to hospital care in ethnic minority regio...

There is increasing support for the proposition that academic health centers have a duty to accept broad responsibility for the health of their communities. The Health of the Public program has proposed that centers become directly involved in the social-political process as advocates for reform of the health care system. Such engagement raises important issues about the roles and responsibilit...

BACKGROUND Adequate access to primary care emergency centers is particularly important in rural areas isolated from urban centers. However, variability in utilization of emergency services located in primary care centers among inhabitants of nearby geographical areas is understudied. The objectives of this study are twofold: 1) to analyze the association between the availability of municipal em...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to determine adherence to selected recommended safety standards in North Carolina child care centers. METHODS A self administered questionnaire eliciting information about safety practices in child care was mailed to a randomly selected sample of 409 North Carolina child care centers. RESULTS One hundred and ninety five usable questionnaires were ret...

BACKGROUND Presenteeism affects the performance of healthcare workers. This study examined associations between job stress, affective commitment, and presenteeism among healthcare workers. METHODS To investigate the relationship between job stress, affective commitment, and presenteeism, structural equation modeling was used to analyze a sample of 1392 healthcare workers from 11 Class A terti...