In this review epidemiological studies concerning chronic benign pain among adults are
discussed. To this end, studies focusing on chronic pain, reporting prevalences at a population …

Surveying the literature on the assessment of quality of care from the patient's perspective,
the concept has often been operationalized as patient satisfaction. Patient satisfaction has …

Introduction Patient views on quality of care are of paramount importance with respect to the
implementation of quality assurance (QA) and improvement (QI) programmes. However, the …

Preferences for physicians' gender is an obvious and well documented example of
considerations of patients' attitudes. But research carried out in this field is rather limited to the …

Encapsulating Peritoneal Sclerosis in the New Millennium: A... : Clinical Journal of the American
Society of Nephrology Encapsulating Peritoneal Sclerosis in the New Millennium: A National …

Computerized diary measurement of pain, disability and psychological adaptation was
performed four times a day for 4 weeks in 80 patients with various duration of unexplained pain. …

Background Peritoneal dialysis (PD)–related peritonitis remains the leading cause of
technique failure and a significant cause of morbidity among PD patients. Rates in the literature …

Methods We analysed episode-level data on all obstetric inpatient delivery events (live or
stillbirth) between 1 April 1998 and 31 March 2013 (n= 813,921) using the Scottish Morbidity …

In this study, one particular form of nonverbal behavior—patient-directed gaze—was
examined in relation to the general practitioner's performance in psychosocial care. Data were …

Aims/hypothesis An excess cancer incidence of 20–25% has been identified among persons
with diabetes, most of whom have type 2 diabetes. We aimed to describe the association …