Worldwide, the "actors" of the tourism market identified new needs, this aspect leading to the appearance of various forms of tourism such as: adventure tourism, city-breaks, cultural tourism, religious tourism etc. At the same time current economic development, marked by the recession of recent...

Dental tourism is a promising niche market, which is still at the beginning of its evolution in Slovenia. In order for it to successfully develop in Slovenia, superior dental services will have to be offered and provided to foreign patients. To ensure and maintain a high quality of these...

The aim of this study is to identify and classify the most important factors affecting patient satisfaction in the COVID-19 pandemic crisis considering economic effects. This is an analytical study using the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) method and ANN-MLP (Artificial neural network based on...

Low healthcare quality has been found to predict the development of several illnesses in older adults, while the evidence on dementia is still lacking. This study assesses whether and to what extent experiencing low healthcare quality can be associated with developing dementia in people...

The performance of the healthcare system is obtained by evaluating the quality of the healthcare. The image obtained from health services assessments is important because it shows the degree to which they meet or exceed expectations. Attitudes towards health care are measured by the perception...

Patient-centered care has become a key driver in recent healthcare reform. Meanwhile, healthcare consumers have become more aware and concerned about the quality of services. This has made healthcare organisations accentuate evaluating healthcare service quality and patient satisfaction. This...

Low healthcare quality has been found to predict the development of several illnesses in older adults, while the evidence on dementia is still lacking. This study assesses whether and to what extent experiencing low healthcare quality can be associated with developing dementia in people...

Purpose: The main contribution of this paper is to generate an optimum solution for capacity planning and appointment scheduling issues, which are frequently encountered in clinical flows with various route and treatment periods at dental hospitals. Design/methodology/approach: It is essential...

In this study we investigate the relationship between nursing staffing levels and hospital quality in Germany. We use administrative data from almost all German hospitals from 2002 to 2013 and link it to mortality rates and patient satisfaction measures. To analyze the association between...