impact of a single ccp on efficiency

... the fact that these indicators are much easier to measure In addition, conventional methods have the advantage of being investment evaluation settings Their major drawback of evaluation is that ... emphasis on value creation but it has been accused of an excessive focus on the shortterm and undervaluation of growth potential In addition, some authors argue that it is only a variant of residual ... Ittner, C.D and D.F Larcker (1998b), ``Are non-financial measures leading indicators of financial performance? An analysis of customer satisfaction’’, Journal of Management Accounting Research, 36,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/12/2013, 17:15

... [http://www.diabetes.ca/cpg2003/chapters.aspx?agrowing healthcareproblem.htm] Canadian Diabetes Association (CDA): Clinical practice guidelines for the management of diabetes in Canada Canadian Medical Association Journal ... D, Donaldson N: Building organizational capacity to engage in research utilization Journal of Nursing Administration 1995, 25:12-16 Tsai SL: Nurses' participation and utilization of research ... involving an iterative process of data reduction, data display, conclusion drawing and verification [111] Discussion Limitations An inherent limitation of collecting data through chart audit is...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... [http://www.diabetes.ca/cpg2003/chapters.aspx?agrowing healthcareproblem.htm] Canadian Diabetes Association (CDA): Clinical practice guidelines for the management of diabetes in Canada Canadian Medical Association Journal ... D, Donaldson N: Building organizational capacity to engage in research utilization Journal of Nursing Administration 1995, 25:12-16 Tsai SL: Nurses' participation and utilization of research ... involving an iterative process of data reduction, data display, conclusion drawing and verification [111] Discussion Limitations An inherent limitation of collecting data through chart audit is...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:21

... resistance patterns of leading nosocomial pathogens (gram) and number of boxes were calculated from two databases, 1) Hospital pharmacy computer databases, and 2) International Medication System ... non-parametric correlations A P value of less than 0.05 was regarded as significant Software package STATA 9.0 (USA) was used for the analysis Materials and Methods Results Hospital setting and antibiotic ... NARP was initiated in Turkey in February 2003 by a central regulation of Ministry of Health and was announced nation-wide via official newspaper of the state [11] This is a quasi-experimental...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:00

... demographic and socioeconomic variables such as age, education, marital status, and employment status, and clinical variables such as cancer stage at diagnosis, time after diagnosis, and initial ... information that is congruent with a patient’s needs at that particular time is an important determinant for patient satisfaction and affects health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and anxiety and ... system was set up to facilitate patient registration and improve patient care by means of uniform regional multidisciplinary patient consultation For each patient, a detailed registration is made,...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 15:20

... Supplier Standards Product LCA Human Rights Standards International Standards Compliance National Standards Compliance EMS Environmental Data Availability Environmental Policy Grievance Process Labor ... and various laws and regulations that mandate certain kind of actions (e.g., environmental and social regulations) The High Sustainability firms, in contrast, pay attention to externalities and ... Firms: A Model of Myopic Corporate Behavior Quarterly Journal of Economics 104: 655-669 Ullmann, A A 1985 Data in search of a theory: a critical examination of the relationships among social performance,...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 20:21

... of Sudan Congo meter Cameroon 30 Eritrea Figure 3d Sub-Saharan Africa: GDP impacted Sudan South Africa Angola Sao Tome and Principe Somalia Madagascar meter Equatorial Guinea Tanzania Somalia ... 7.94 Wetlands LA: Latin America and Caribbean; MENA: Middle East and North Africa; SSA: Sub-Saharan Africa; EA: East Asia; SA: South Asia Area Population GDP Urban extent Ag extent Wetlands (ii) ... Guinea-Bissau Guinea Senegal Liberia The Gambia Mauritania % Impact (Urban Extent) meter Togo Gabon Guinea Madagascar Benin Somalia Mozambique Sierra Leone Senegal Mauritania Guinea-Bissau The Gambia...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 08:20

... preparation Data analysis was provided by AstraZeneca All authors read and approved the final submission 13 14 Additional material 15 Additional file Extra-esophageal Symptoms Questionnaire Summary of ... design and patients RANGE was a multicentre, multinational, observational study (AstraZeneca study code: D9612L00114) conducted as a series of parallel, locally managed studies at 134 primary care ... has received speaker fees from AstraZeneca; Dr J Zapardiel is an employee of AstraZeneca 10 11 12 Authors' contributions All authors were involved in data interpretation and manuscript preparation...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20

... design and patients RANGE (AstraZeneca study code: D9612L00114) was a multinational, observational programme that was conducted as a series of parallel, locally managed studies at 134 primary care ... Cooper A, Karagiannis D, Hatlebakk J, Agréus L, Jablonowski H, Tafalla M: Consultation rates and characteristics of gastroesophageal reflux disease in primary care: a European observational study Eur ... contributions All authors were involved in data interpretation and manuscript preparation Data analysis was provided by AstraZeneca All authors read and approved the final submission Acknowledgements...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... Abdominal wall defect Congenital diaphragmatic hernia Small intestinal anomaly Oesophageal atresia Anorectal malformation Hirschsprung's disease Miscellaneous Congenital anomalies (CA) per patient ... questionnaires at a later stage, not specifically geared to the particular situation of parents of a child with MCA [11-16] An example of a generic questionnaire is the General Health Questionnaire ... heavy burden on patients and parents, as well as on healthcare [3-5] Earlier research by our group and others has shown that prenatal identification of CA can have considerable impact [6-9] Therefore,...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... Abdominal wall defect Congenital diaphragmatic hernia Small intestinal anomaly Oesophageal atresia Anorectal malformation Hirschsprung's disease Miscellaneous Congenital anomalies (CA) per patient ... questionnaires at a later stage, not specifically geared to the particular situation of parents of a child with MCA [11-16] An example of a generic questionnaire is the General Health Questionnaire ... heavy burden on patients and parents, as well as on healthcare [3-5] Earlier research by our group and others has shown that prenatal identification of CA can have considerable impact [6-9] Therefore,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... University of Oxford, UK 5Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Barcelona, Spain Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain Authors’ contributions JMV, LR, and JA participated in the conception ... Barcelona, Spain 3Agency for Health Information, Assessment and Quality, Barcelona, Spain 4NIHR School for Primary Care Research, Department of Primary Care, Division of Primary Care and Public Health, ... Currie C, Zambon A: The family affluence scale as a measure of national wealth: Validation of an adolescent self-report measure Social Indicators Research 2006, 78:473-487 38 Eurostat yearbook ‘96...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... amount of traffic, at least for small and moderate Packet Loss Rates, the larger delay associated with retransmission may be incompatible with real-time constraints In addition, transmission of dedicated ... that terminals Page of 16 wait a minimum time between packet loss detection and NACK sending As far as AL-FEC techniques are concerned, a general consensus seems to arise among international ... the effects of PLR variation Based on the performed analysis, an optimization of the quality assessment and of the monitoring system can be done The adoption of an objective model allows to determine...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 22:20

... compare categorical data A mixed models analysis was employed using SAS Systems A repeated-measures ANOVA was used, where the year was regarded as the repeated measure and the factor was the variable ... execute the neonatal transfers Therefore, ambulances avoided wasting time in an attempt to locate a neonatal ventilator or working incubator The allocation of a dedicated ambulance ensured that vehicle ... this article as: De Vries et al.: A retrospective evaluation of the impact of a dedicated obstetric and neonatal transport service on transport times within an urban setting International Journal...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 03:20

... dimension Ag islands would be easily grown on the H-terminated Si(111) surface because all the Si dangling bonds are saturated by H atoms Conclusions The adsorption of a single Ag atom on clear Si(111)-7 ... the H atoms on the Si surface, we observe that the charge accumulates around the Ag atom, and strongly depletes around the Si adatom, rest atom and the third adjacent Si atom at the second layer ... initio simulation package (VASP) [31] Ab initio density functional calculations of surfaces and interfaces play a critical role in providing a nanoscopic understanding of the chemical bonding in these...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 00:20

... Patagonia, Argentina: the roles of substrate stability and climatic variation, Can J For Res 25 (1995) 1684−1696 [25] Kobayashi O., Funada R., Yasue K., Ohtani J., Evaluation of the effects of ... releases, against the transitional periods which reached a mean frequency of releases of less than one per year The releases that happened during the transitional periods were also scattered, and ... pronounced as in Cantabria The positive response to precipitation in the current July is also frequent in other European locations In various Atlantic, Mediterranean and central European areas, oak radial...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:21

... revision ofthe manuscript, and analysis and interpretation of data PG participated in study design, acquisition of data, revision ofthe manuscript, and interpretation of data All authors read and approved ... revision ofthe manuscript, and analysis and interpretation of data TS participated in study design, revision ofthe manuscript, and interpretation of data J-AN participated in study design, revision ... rate; EVALglobal, physician's global assessment of disease activity on a five-grade scale; HAQ, health assessment questionnaire; MTX, methotrexate; VASglobal, visual analogue scale for general...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:23

... for Quality in Health Care [20], Accreditation Canada is a national, non-profit, independent organization that was created in 1958 to help guarantee that healthcare organizations across Canada furnish ... transformation, organizational transformation and transformation of the relationship) Insofar as internal and external conditions are concerned, four factors are seen to promote change: (1) an ... follows: a RHA in Alberta that had participated in accreditation for the first time (Case 1); an urban hospital in Ontario that had participated in accreditation for many years (Case 2); an academic...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:22

... and Fig 2a) After the 2nd cell division was occurred, minimal medium containing mM aspartate was given to the 3rd generation of cell (135 after microcultivation) After adding the attractant, tumbling-frequency ... and Tar-localization dynamics (red squares) with chemical stimulation Time course of tumbling frequency (blue circles) and Tar-localization dynamics (red squares) with chemical stimulation Hatched ... environment A bacterium was gave chemical stimulation by changing contents of medium supplied from the medium-buffer-exchange region We measured tumbling frequency and Tar-localization ratio of...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 00:22

... São Paulo State University in Saarto et al Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2010, 52:57 http://www.actavetscand.com/content/52/1/57 Brazil as a professor of anaesthesiology He was also the local mentor ... Sandona F, Casale R, Giron G: The effects of parachlorophenylalanine and naloxone on acupuncture and electroacupuncture modulation of capsaicin-induced neurogenic edema in the rat hind paw A controlled ... was administered for seven days except in six cases, Saarto et al Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2010, 52:57 http://www.actavetscand.com/content/52/1/57 Page of Table Demographics of the dogs and...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:22