Assessing Job Satisfaction and Stress among Pharmacists in Cyprus.

Background: Inadequate staffing, increased responsibilities and a high workload are some of the factors that are directly related to stress levels experienced by pharmacists, which in turn affect job satisfaction. Objective: The aim of this study was to assess job satisfaction and stress levels of pharmacists in Cyprus, involving those working in the public and private sector. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was performed which involved the completion of the Job Satisfaction Survey (JSS) questionnaire to estimate job satisfaction, and the Perceived Stress Scale-14 (PSS-14) questionnaire to evaluate perceived stress.

Informal payments for maternity health services in public hospitals in Greece.

Background: Private health expenditure for consuming maternity health services has been identified as an issue within public hospitals.

Aim: To estimate level of private health expenditure, in the form of informal payments, for maternal services in public hospitals in Greece.

Methods: The study population consisted of 160 women who had recently given birth in three provincial general hospitals and one general hospital in Athens.

Extracapsular hip fracture management: cost-consequences analysis of two alternative operative methods.

Objectives: The aim of this prospective study was to perform a cost and outcome comparison between two alternative operative techniques (osteosynthesis and hemiarthroplasty) used in the treatment of elderly patients with unstable trochanteric hip fracture.

Materials And Methods: One hundred seventy-three trochanteric hip fracture patients were followed-up for 1 year after surgery. For each operative technique, hospital treatment's cost per patient was computed.