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The aims of this study were to investigate and compare patient satisfaction with outpatient care in public secondary and tertiary hospitals in China and to explore the factors affecting patient satisfaction for improving the quality of outpatient care in public hospitals.
This cross-sectional study comprised a sample survey of 11 097 adults in 31 provincial cities in China from February to April 2018. A pretested structured questionnaire was used to collect outpatient experience data through a computer-assisted telephone interviewing system. Patient satisfaction was assessed using nine questions answered on a 4-point Likert scale. Multivariate regression models were employed to examine the relationships of patient satisfaction with outpatient services and healthcare provider level and to identify the factors associated with satisfaction.
Patient's overall satisfaction score with outpatient care was 27.3 (SD = 3.8), with lower scores observed in tertiary hospitals than in secondary hospitals (27.3 vs. 27ent satisfaction with outpatient care in future healthcare reforms. Patient waiting time, medical expenses and treatment duration especially require improvements in tertiary hospitals.
The aforementioned results suggested that tertiary hospitals face larger challenges in patient satisfaction with outpatient care than secondary hospitals. Measures must be adopted to improve patient satisfaction with outpatient care in future healthcare reforms. Patient waiting time, medical expenses and treatment duration especially require improvements in tertiary hospitals.There is little debate about the importance of ethics in health care, and clearly defined rules, regulations, and oaths help ensure patients' trust in the care they receive. However, standards are not as well established for the data professions within health care, even though the responsibility to treat patients in an ethical way extends to the data collected about them. Increasingly, data scientists, analysts, and engineers are becoming fiduciarily responsible for patient safety, treatment, and outcomes, and will require training and tools to meet this responsibility. We developed a data ethics checklist that enables users to consider the possible ethical issues that arise from the development and use of data products. ATM inhibitor The combination of ethics training for data professionals, a data ethics checklist as part of project management, and a data ethics committee holds potential for providing a framework to initiate dialogues about data ethics and can serve as an ethical touchstone for rapid use within typical analytic workflows, and we recommend the use of this or equivalent tools in deploying new data products in hospitals.
Because more than one-third of people making nonfatal suicide attempts do not receive mental health treatment, it is essential to extend suicide attempt risk factors beyond high-risk clinical populations to the general adult population.
To identify future suicide attempt risk factors in the general population using a data-driven machine learning approach including more than 2500 questions from a large, nationally representative survey of US adults.
Data came from wave 1 (2001 to 2002) and wave 2 (2004 to 2005) of the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC). NESARC is a face-to-face longitudinal survey conducted with a national representative sample of noninstitutionalized civilian population 18 years and older in the US. The cumulative response rate across both waves was 70.2% resulting in 34 653 wave 2 interviews. A balanced random forest was trained using cross-validation to develop a suicide attempt risk model. Out-of-fold model prediction was used to assess model perent resulting from mental disorders and socioeconomic disadvantage. These results may help guide future clinical assessment and the development of new suicide risk scales.Anterior ST-segment depression encompasses important differential diagnoses, including ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction, non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction and pulmonary embolism. Diagnostic accuracy is crucial, as this has important therapeutic implications. This ECG case report reviews the electrocardiographic changes seen in patients with chest pain and anterior ST-segment depression.Hypertension guidelines have been based on country-specific data until the publication of the International Society of Hypertension (ISH) global guidelines. The major differences between the ISH global guidelines and other international guidelines are the stratified recommendations to accommodate differences in available resources between countries and within countries. This is a key and novel proposal in the new ISH guidelines. There is the separation of optimal versus essential criteria for diagnosis and treatment according to availability of resources. This guideline includes recommendations for sub-Saharan Africa. The Pan-African Society of Cardiology (PASCAR) continues to promote awareness and recommendations on hypertension in Africa. This commentary provides a summary and discussion of the global guidelines in order to clarify the position of PASCAR.
To date, no definitive waist circumference (WC) cut-off values for abdominal obesity (AO) have been established for sub-Saharan Africa, including Botswana. Therefore, the classification of AO among these populations is based on European values. For accurate diagnosis of the metabolic syndrome (MetS), cut-off values reflective of the population investigated must be used.
The study was an attempt to determine optimal cut-off values for AO among Batswana adults.
The receiver operating characteristic curve was used to determine the optimal cut-off values for predicting at least two other risk factors of the MetS. Data were used from a descriptive cross-sectional study employing a complex multi-stage cluster sampling. Demographic and anthropometric measurements (weight and height, waist and hip circumferences), blood pressure, and blood glucose, triglycerides, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and total cholesterol levels were collected from 384 men and 416 women in Gaborone and the surrounding villages.
The ability of waist circumference to predict at least two other risk factors of the MetS gave cut-off values of ≥ 91.
