This collection of bits and pieces -- interviews, endnotes, replies to questionnaires -- includes a journal Calvino, who died in 1985, kept during his travels in the United States in 1959-60, and the title piece, a homage to his adopted city.
Since last year, employers in sex discrimination cases have also been obliged to reply to questionnaires, submitted by the plaintiff, on their pay and promotion practices.Changes in the City are also encouraging such cases.
As mentioned earlier, our original quality measure is the sum of different quality factors that were scored either during the procurement process (competitive bidding) or after firms replied to questionnaires that were sent during the research.
There may be a disproportionate tendency of those who are satisfied with services to reply to questionnaires.
The inclusion criteria were: a) to be over 18 years of age; b) to have been on HD therapy for more than three months; c) to be able to reply to questionnaires and d) to have spontaneously participated in the study.
The patients with physical, psychic, psychiatric or cognitive disabilities preventing them from replying to the questionnaires and taking part in the interviews, and people having received prior treatment for a serious illness lasting at least 6 months (owing to another pathology) and people under wardship or guardianship are also not included in this study.
As responses were meant to represent those of the institutions', participants were explicitly instructed to consult the members of the PT faculty in replying to the questionnaire items.
The strong encouragement given to all participating HEI to consult their respective faculties in replying to the questionnaire items increases our confidence that the responses closely reflect the true institutional responses.
Seamark et al [ 5] found that 1 in 10 GPs replying to their questionnaire, felt that when the specialist service was involved, they found it difficult to know who had overall responsibility for patient care.
Seamark et al [ 5] found that 10% of the 71 GPs replying to their questionnaire survey in Exeter felt that when the specialist service was involved, they found it difficult to know who had overall responsibility for the patients care and their contribution felt underrated (6%).
There was no overlap between the populations replying to the two questionnaires.
