Israel: a comparison of army personnel satisfaction rates in different primary healthcare settings.

The Israeli medical corps has recently been examining different primary healthcare settings for home-front career army personnel. This study compares the satisfaction rates of this unique population in different primary healthcare settings. Previously validated patient-satisfaction surveys were conducted 4 months apart in 10 large primary care clinics that treat home-front army career personneL.

A multidisciplinary field hospital as a substitute for medical hospital care in the aftermath of an earthquake: the experience of the Israeli Defense Forces Field Hospital in Duzce, Turkey, 1999.

The damage created by an earthquake can overwhelm local health services, and damage to clinics and hospitals can render them useless. After an earthquake, even undamaged medical facilities cannot be used for a period of time if there is a risk of aftershocks and collapse. In such a situation, there may be calls for international health teams--but what constitutes the optimal medical aid a few days after the event? Does a military field hospital fill the "gap" in the local healthcare system? On 12 November 1999, a 7.

No need to tax the sick: clinical guidelines for rofecoxib as an alternative effective method to the copayment policy in the advent of increasing pharmaceutical expenditures.

Background: Over the last few years, major health care systems have been trying to control increasing pharmaceutical expenditures by a variety of methods, such as the controversial copayment policy, as essential health expenditures were being jeopardized.

Objective: To analyze the regulatory intervention of preauthorization on a rofecoxib model in the medical corps of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) in terms of indications for prescription, consumption, and cost.

Interventions: Guidelines established by the medical services branch based on current literature and communication with diverse specialists and hospitals were implemented by a general practitioner who checked each rofecoxib prescription that was written for IDF personnel by a specialist.

Intensive care in a field hospital in an urban disaster area: lessons from the August 1999 earthquake in Turkey.

Objective: To describe our experience with the implementation of intensive care in the setting of a field hospital, deployed to the site of a major urban disaster.

Design: Description of our experience during mission to Turkey; conclusions regarding implementation of intensive care at disaster sites.

Setting: Military Field Hospital at Adapazari in Turkey.

Recommendations for nursing requirements at a field hospital, based on the Israel Defense Forces field hospital at the earthquake disaster in Turkey--August 1999.

On the 17th of August 1999, an earthquake of 7.4 magnitude on the Richter Scale struck the Marmara region in Turkey causing a massive casualties event with an estimated 2,680 deaths and 5,300 injuries just at the city of Adapazari alone. A field hospital was set up by the Israel Defense Forces at Adapazari in order to provide temporary medical services until regular medical forces recovered.

Waiting time is a major predictor of patient satisfaction in a primary military clinic.

Patient satisfaction has emerged as an increasingly important parameter in the assessment of health care quality. Determination of the most important contributors of overall satisfaction can assist health care providers in improving care. However, simple patient satisfaction surveys are difficult to compartmentalize and fail to fully explain patient satisfaction or disapproval.