... factors. Design/methodology/approach In this descriptive, cross-sectional study, 194 patients hospitalized in the general surgery department of a university hospital were included. Data were collected using a two-part questionnaire. In the first part of the questionnaire, questions...

...Ioannis Moisoglou; Petros Galanis; Evangelia Meimeti; Angeliki Dreliozi; Petros Kolovos; Panagiotis Prezerakos Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of nurse staffing, nurse education and work experience on patients’ length of stay (LOS) in the Greek public hospitals...

...Khorshid Vaskooi-Eshkevari; Fatemeh Mirbazegh; Mojtaba Soltani-Kermanshahi; Mahin Sabzali-Poursarab-Saeedi; Sadaf Alipour Purpose To respect the patients’ physical privacy, they should be provided with proper clothing that prevents the exposure of unnecessary parts of the body. The purpose...

...Simon Geletta Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the results of an effort to use social media generated data for measuring patient satisfaction with medical care services. Traditionally, scientifically designed patient satisfaction surveys are used to provide such measurements...