This study aimed to investigate the perception of dental outpatient care quality from multiple perspectives of administrators, physicians, nurses, and patients and propose nursing care quality ...

Abstract: The quality of medical care can be evaluated by three main components, which were proposed by Avedis Donabedian: the quality of structure, the quality of process and the quality of outcome.

Cancer patients in hospitals are increasingly cared for jointly by palliative care teams, as well as oncologists and surgeons. There has been a considerable growth in the number and range of hospital ...

The validity of process evaluations of medical care has been challenged by a number of studies which purport to show that process and outcome measures are unrelated. However, each of the studies had ...

An activity analysis production function, linking the structure, process, and outcome of medical care, is introduced. The model, based on a semi-Markovian conception of the disease process, is ...