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Patient perception of the quality of Healthcare Services. A psychometric study on the Questionnaire of Quality Perception
No full textIn the present article we examine the psychometric properties of the Questionnaire of Quality Perception (QQP), an Italian survey measuring patients' perceptions on the quality of a recent hospital admission. The authors predict that the 14-item survey will be divided into four factors: 1) satisfaction with the medical doctor, 2) satisfaction with the nursing staff, 3) satisfaction with the auxiliary staff, and 4) satisfaction with the hospital amenities. Considering Coluccia, Ferretti, Lorini, Calamai (2002), we administered the test on 1804 patients from the "Le Scotte" Hospital in Siena. We tested two models using a confirmatory factorial analysis (structural equation modeling): the first model with 4 orthogonal factors, the second model with 4 oblique factors. The SEM fit indices and the test of the difference of the Ï2, lean towards the acceptance of the second model
Questionario di qualità percepita (QQP): Uno studio sulle differenze di genere. [Questionnaire of perceived quality (QQP): a study on the differences of gender]
No full textIn the present paper we analyze the psychometric properties of an Italian questionnaire measuring the perceived quality of health services (Questionnaire of Perceived Quality; Coluccia, Ferretti, Lorini, Calamai, 2002). Subjects answered 14 questions subdivided into four factors (i.e. Satisfaction regarding Medical Doctors, Nurses, Auxiliary Staff, and Hospital Structure). We administered the questionnaire to 1,600 patients in the "Le Scotte" Hospital of Siena. According to structural equation modeling, we studied the dimensionality of the questionnaire using confirmatory factor analysis and, successively, we studied differences in gender using Multi-sample analysis. Results show significant gender differences for two dimensions (i.e. Satisfaction regarding Nurses and Satisfaction regarding Hospital Structures). Females, compared to males, express more negative evaluations in these two factors. © PI-ME, 2006
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No full textIncludes index.Colophon date: 1596.Engraved t.p. vignette. Engraved port. of author. Numerous woodcut plans, tables, diagrams. Woodcut device at colophon. Initials.Mode of access: Internet.Centered on front pastedown is bookplate of Giovanni Muzio. Inscription on recto of 2nd front free endpaper: 1655 / Di Lelio Onetti.Binding: old vellum. Boards decorated in gilt with central oval and frame, both filled with arabesques. Author's name written on spine. The edges gilt
Il comportamento nomico degli animali non-umani. Verso un’etologia della normatività
No full textMan is not only a social and teleological animal: he is also a nomic animal that can act following rules. Starting from this new image of man, the author asks whether there are also nonhuman animals with this nomic capacity. Generally, the answer to this question is negative, but the author provides four affirmative answers deriving from the ethological, philosophical and legal investigation of normativity (C. Goretti, R. Sacco, F.B.M. de Waal, K. Andrews) that may pave the way for a new field of research: ethology of normativity
Corporeal drawn norms. An investigation of graphic normativity in the material world of everyday objects
No full textStarting from the ontological question of norms, namely from the question “What do we talk about when we talk about norms?”, the author highlights the existence of thetic norms, that is, norms established through an act of normative production, which have not been formulated linguistically. Notably, the author focuses on drawn (or graphic) norms, that is those norms that do not arise from a linguistic formulation or from a linguistic representation, but from a graphic representation, from a drawing (for example, Ikea’s diagram instruction manuals and traffic signs). In conclusion, the author examines a particular set of drawn norms, corporeal drawn norms, and investigates their essentially deictic nature
Animal norms: an investigation of normativity in the non-human social world
No full textA human being is not only a social and teleological animal, she/he is also a nomic animal, a creature that can act in light of rules. Starting from this new image of humankind, the author extends the investigation of normativity to other members of the animal kingdom, posing the question of whether other nomic animals exist outside the human species. Generally, the consensus tends toward the idea that non-human animals are incapable of acting in light of rules, as if this capacity were a specific characteristic of humanity excluded to all other species. The author instead assembles three impactful answers that counter this consensus, posited respectively by a legal expert, an ethologist, and a philosopher, responses that may pave the way for a new field of research: the ethology of normativity. In conclusion, the author points out how these new inquiries advance novel ideas of normativity that deserve investigating further, such as a “normativity without language,” and a “normativity without norms.
Possono le regole costitutive creare una practice?
No full textThe author investigates the role of constitutive rules in the construction of social reality. He denies that constitutive rules are a sufficient condition of a practice such as a chess game. To create a new practice with rules, it is necessary that there already be the grammar of this practice, that is, the sense of this practice (for example, the sense of game). It is the grammar of a practice and not its constitutive rules that determines the nature of a practice. The sense of a practice cannot be created by constitutive rules
"A Man for all Faculties”? The Unity of Kantian Reason from a Pragmatic Point of View
No full textThe present contribution aims to investigate the way Kant deals with the relation between the individual and humankind in order to provide a complete and unitary image of the human being. According to some commentators, the reconciliation between the individual and humankind is achieved by Kant only in the Critique of the Power of Judgment by means of the structure of reflective judgement (e.g., Nobbe 1995), and it reflects a hypothesis that has long been widespread among scholars, such as Erdmann, Arnoldt, Dilthey, and Adickes. According to this view, Kant's anthropology is not a discipline in its own right, so that it is not able to answer the fundamental questions it raises
Questioning the Soul. On C. W. Dyck's "Kant and Rational Psychology"
No full textAmong the most recent examples of works dealing with the history of Kant’s sources,
the work by C. Dyck deserves a special place both for his ambitious goal and the breadth of
the historical analysis that accompanies this goal. he author’s basic assumption is that, “In
contrast to the narrowly rationalistic approach to the soul which would proceed completely
independently of experience, the rational psychology pioneered by the theorists of the German
tradition relies essentially upon empirical psychology”. Indeed, according to Wolf, when our
investigation comes to the soul it “is to be considered rationalistic only in a much broader sense
in that [... it] is not limited to what can be directly known through experience” (p. 9).
his lets the author formulate his main tenet, namely that in diferent senses both Kant’s
pre-Critical (1770s) and Critical (Paralogisms) dealings with rational psychology can only be
understood through abandoning a traditional interpretative scheme aiming at identifying the
target of the Paralogisms only with the Cartesian-Leibnizian position. he author maintains
indeed that actually Kant does not mainly victimize the rational psychologists for taking the
soul as given in a merely intelligible form instead of through a sensible intuition. Rather,
since Kant’s main polemical target is represented by the German (basically, Wolian) tradition
immediately before him, his main concern is to detect the mistakes within the pretended
empirical intuition through which the soul is supposed to be given within this tradition. Such
a position was at least partially embraced by Kant himself in the middle 1770s
Questioning the Soul. On C. W. Dyck's "Kant and Rational Psychology"
No full textAmong the most recent examples of works dealing with the history of Kant’s sources,
the work by C. Dyck deserves a special place both for his ambitious goal and the breadth of
the historical analysis that accompanies this goal. he author’s basic assumption is that, “In
contrast to the narrowly rationalistic approach to the soul which would proceed completely
independently of experience, the rational psychology pioneered by the theorists of the German
tradition relies essentially upon empirical psychology”. Indeed, according to Wolf, when our
investigation comes to the soul it “is to be considered rationalistic only in a much broader sense
in that [... it] is not limited to what can be directly known through experience” (p. 9).
his lets the author formulate his main tenet, namely that in diferent senses both Kant’s
pre-Critical (1770s) and Critical (Paralogisms) dealings with rational psychology can only be
understood through abandoning a traditional interpretative scheme aiming at identifying the
target of the Paralogisms only with the Cartesian-Leibnizian position. he author maintains
indeed that actually Kant does not mainly victimize the rational psychologists for taking the
soul as given in a merely intelligible form instead of through a sensible intuition. Rather,
since Kant’s main polemical target is represented by the German (basically, Wolian) tradition
immediately before him, his main concern is to detect the mistakes within the pretended
empirical intuition through which the soul is supposed to be given within this tradition. Such
a position was at least partially embraced by Kant himself in the middle 1770s
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