Browsing by Subject "Healthcare quality"

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    Analysis of patient satisfaction through the effect of healthcare spending on waiting times for consultations and operations
    (2022) Valls Martínez, María del Carmen; Soledad Grasso, Mayra; Santos Jaén, José Manuel; Palacios Manzano, Mercedes; Economía Financiera y Contabilidad
    In recent years, public authorities have invested large amounts of public money in trying to reduce waiting times for consultations and operations with the aim of improving the quality of the healthcare system. Our research aims to analyze the effect of these investments on patient satisfaction through the mediating relationship of waiting times for consultations and operations, as well as from a gender perspective. By studying a series of key indicators of the Spanish healthcare system and applying partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM), the findings show that the model explains 12.10% of the variance in consultant waiting times, 51.90% in operation waiting times, and 27.00% in patient satisfaction. We found that increased public spending leads to increased patient satisfaction by reducing waiting times. However, no gender-based differences were found. The results provide exciting implications for theory and practice, indicating how policymakers can orient their strategies towards improving patient satisfaction.
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    Investigar durante la residencia de Radiología: necesidadformativa, responsabilidad profesional y obligacióninstitucional
    (Universidad de Murcia: servicio de publicaciones, 2026) García-Hidalgo, Clemente; Sin departamento asociado
    Research education during radiology residency is often perceived as a secondary task,separate from clinical practice and perhaps even conflicting with it. This opinion paper challengesthat dichotomy and argues that research is simultaneously an educational requirement for residents,a professional responsibility for radiologists, and an institutional obligation for the department.Drawing on various sources, including data from Spanish-speaking contexts, this article analyzeshow the current system expects research results without providing infrastructure, mentoring, orrecognition, and how the most significant barriers are cultural rather than logistical. The position ofauthors who propose limiting research to residents with “genuine passion” is discussed, recognizingthe partial validity of their premises but rejecting their conclusion: the problem is not that residentsconduct research, but that they do so without structure or supervision. As an alternative, a modelwith three stages is proposed. It is argued that, in the context of a specialty increasingly reliant onartificial intelligence, imaging biomarkers, and precision medicine, training radiologists withresearch skills is not an academic luxury but a requirement for professional sustainability
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    Investigar durante la residencia de Radiología: necesidadformativa, responsabilidad profesional y obligacióninstitucional
    (Universidad de Murcia: servicio de publicaciones, 2026) García Hidalgo, Clemente; Sin departamento asociado
    bstract: Research education during radiology residency is often perceived as a secondary task,separate from clinical practice and perhaps even conflicting with it. This opinion paper challengesthat dichotomy and argues that research is simultaneously an educational requirement for residents,a professional responsibility for radiologists, and an institutional obligation for the department.Drawing on various sources, including data from Spanish-speaking contexts, this article analyzeshow the current system expects research results without providing infrastructure, mentoring, orrecognition, and how the most significant barriers are cultural rather than logistical. The position ofauthors who propose limiting research to residents with “genuine passion” is discussed, recognizingthe partial validity of their premises but rejecting their conclusion: the problem is not that residentsconduct research, but that they do so without structure or supervision. As an alternative, a modelwith three stages is proposed. It is argued that, in the context of a specialty increasingly reliant onartificial intelligence, imaging biomarkers, and precision medicine, training radiologists withresearch skills is not an academic luxury but a requirement for professional sustainability