This study, done on the 10th anniversary of the Taiwan National Health Insurance programme, examines five health policy and payment reforms, including case payment, separation of drug prescription and dispensing, reasonable outpatient volumes, hospital global budgeting, and self-governing...

This study was aimed to examine patient satisfaction in Taiwan hospital-based emergency departments (ED). The 460 ED patients were surveyed – 66 from medical centres, 101 form regional hospitals and 293 from district hospitals. A structured questionnaire were developed covering three service...

Using chemical substances for self-medication may be regarded not simply as free choice but as the result of complex behaviours involving social, environmental, and economic contexts, and even as an attempt to cope with life. The objective of this study was to determine the possibility of...