quality of communication between physicians and patients. In addition to considering the usefulness of the cultural competence …

, this study was undertaken with certain research questions like; what factors influences patients? is patient satisfaction … an important consideration to hospitals? Whether patients switch hospitals, in case, if they are not satisfied? What is … carried with a questionnaire to measure and know as how patients value non-clinical factors. The 5 anchored likert scale was …

this neglect. The practical effect is that patients are treated when, if they had capacity, they would refuse treatment … practice, this article addresses the following issues: (1) when to test patients for capacity; (2) how to test capacity; and (3 … closely as possible to patients' true preferences. On the first question, existing data and new theory are marshaled in …

OBJECTIVES: To describe factors influencing inequitable access to radiation therapy among cancer patients in Thailand … carried out. Semi-structured interviews with 1,500 sampled cancer patients and in-depth interviews with 12 purposively … insurance among poor cancer patients were illustrated as significant factors influencing equitable access to radiation therapy …

difficulties in filling that role is the impact of heterogeneous patients on the process. Most previous attempts to address this … individual patients into spending type groups, then used again to predict health care costs using a separate ordinary least …,744,264 patients, and in populations this large, the 50/50 validation does not reveal any overfitting or any significant differences in …

cost-intensive. Also, obesity is known to increase health care cost. However, although obesity is widespread among patients … impact of concomitant obesity on resource utilisation and health care costs of patients with diabetes from a third party … independently associated with a significant increase in health resource consumption in patients with diabetes mellitus. Due to the …

(4%) was approved for Chinese medicine in 2003. Especially, patients with chronic diseases utilized more health care … to analyze the utilization of Western medicine, Chinese medicine and combined treatment among patients with chronic … explore the correlation of age and gender factors. Result: There was a total of 352,495 patients with chronic disease patients …