OBJECTIVES To examine individual clinic staff members' experiences with using an immunization registry and to compare staff members' perceptions of immunization registries across different provider sites. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey using in-depth interviews and direct observation. SETTINGS The pediatric department of an urban community health center and 2 urban hospital-based pediatric p...

Code smells reflect sub-optimal patterns of code that often lead to critical software flaws or failure. In the sameway, community smells reflect sub-optimal organisational and socio-technical patterns in the organisational structure of the software community. To understand the relation between the community smells and code smells we start by surveying 162 developers of nine opensource systems. ...

The chief objective in many online communities is to allow for knowledge sharing and learning, which is enabled by technologies such as a discussion forum. The value realized from these communities depends on ongoing participation in terms of two key activities i.e., knowledge seeking and contribution. However, a large number of communities fail as they cannot sustain these activities. This pos...

Dyspnea is an alarming symptom responsible for millions of patient visits each year. Poor perception of dyspnea might be reasonably attributed to an inappropriately low level of fear and inadequate earlier medical treatment for both patients and physicians, resulting in subsequent intensive care. This study was conducted to evaluate medical care use and cost, and mortality according to the perc...

To prevent overweight and obesity the implementation of an integrated community-wide intervention approach (ICIA) is often advocated. Evaluation can enhance implementation of such an approach and demonstrate the extent of effectiveness. To be able to support professionals in the evaluation of ICIAs we studied barriers to and facilitators of ICIA evaluation. In this study ten professionals of tw...

We used data from a home visiting trial to examine low-income women's perceptions of services received from nurses (the community care [CC] group) and from a nurse-community health worker (CHW) team. More mothers in the nurse-CHW group than in the CC group reported receiving help in all of the categories assessed. For both groups, assistance with health education ranked highest among the types ...

COMMUNICATION RESEARCH, Vol. 2 No. 1, January 1975 An experiment was designed to assess variations in perception of communication style by persons with differing Communication Style Measure (CSM) scores. Twenty-four dyads participated in an interpersonal encounter. Postinteraction data analysis indicates that subjects with low CSM scores do not report perceiving any appreciable difference betwe...