BACKGROUND Improving access to psychological therapies (IAPTs) services deliver evidence-based care to people with depression and anxiety. A quality improvement (QI) initiative was undertaken by an IAPT service to improve referrals providing an opportunity to evaluate equitable access. METHODS QI methodologies were used by the clinical team to improve referrals to the service. The collection ...

The provision of mental health care throughout the world is both extremely complex and there exists a diverse set of systems of delivering clinical care. Despite advances in diagnosis and technology, most systems are plagued by limited resources and inefficiencies. From 1992 to 2002, for example, expenditure for serious mental disorders increased from $63 billion to $100 billion (Insel, 2008). ...

This study adopted a simulation based network performance analysis to investigate the effects of the application of different voice encoder schemes on QoS of VoIP system ,deployed with UMTS network Through different network simulation experiments using realistic network scenarios in OPNET environment, the results indicated that the choice of suitable voice encoder scheme with a small number of ...

Economies of developed countries are primarily based on the services sector, where the hospitality industry plays an important role. As such, new service design and service innovation are vital for maintaining competitive advantage. Recently, ubiquitous computing has emerged as a key enabler in various industries in support of service innovation by facilitating the design of new services. This ...

BACKGROUND Service quality is considered as a main domain of quality associ-ated with non-clinical aspect of healthcare. This study aimed to survey and im-proves service quality of delivered care in the Physiotherapy Clinic affiliated with the Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran. METHODS A quasi experimental interventional study was conducted in the Physiotherapy Clinic, 2010-...

Environmental and meteorological conditions are of utmost importance for the population, as they are strongly related to the quality of life. Citizens are increasingly aware of this importance. This awareness results in an increasing demand for environmental information tailored to their specific needs and background. We present an environmental information platform that supports submission of ...

A recent article in The Lancet analysed the barriers to reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) conc cerning maternal health, child health, tuberculosis, malaria and human immuc nodeficiency virus/acquired immunoc deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS).1 Inappropriate provider behaviour, insufficient case management, limited management capacity, and referral and communication failures were ide...