But many still do not, often because they, like Ms. George, live too far from a health facility – or because the costs of repeated travel are too great for them to bear.
While the response rate was 94%%, overall satisfaction with QDU was high in 93 % of cases, repeated travel to hospital was not considered a major difficulty, and 84%% of patients would choose the QDU instead of hospitalization should a further diagnostic workup be required [ 21].
The findings were similar on both occasions: while a high overall satisfaction was reported by 95%% of respondents, repeated travels to hospital were not an important difficulty, and 80%% of patients reported that they would prefer the QDU care model over conventional hospitalization should they require a new diagnostic evaluation.
The fact that only 7%% of patients found repeated travels to hospital uncomfortable is reassuring since, unlike hospitalization, an objective of QDUs is that patients be able to maintain a fairly normal daily activity however serious their condition under study is (e.g. liver metastases) as long as their general health status is well enough [ 12, 13].
It beat its BBC1 and ITV 9pm rivals – a Sherlock repeat and Travel Guides, respectively – by about 200,00 viewers each.
Henry R. Silverman, Cendant's 61-year-old chief executive, hoped to repeat with travel reservations what he had achieved with middle-tier hotel chains (like Ramada and Days Inn) and real estate (like Century 21 and Coldwell Banker).
That led to a date on New Year's Eve, which eventually led to repeated train travel between New York and Washington.
During the following days this vehicle repeats this travel pattern.
Today, repeated localized travel occurs regularly among inhabited and uninhabited islands in the form of tourism, Park management visits, scientific research, and permitted and illicit hunting and fishing.
In year two of the study, Cabot left in late July and repeated his travels of the previous year.
