... Health andQuality of Life Outcomes 2005, 3:64 Background It has become accepted that increasing one's quality of life (QOL) via health promotion efforts andmedical care interventions ... correlation coefficients between self-rated health status and physical and mental health were modest, but Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Health andQuality of Life Outcomes 2005, ... Robinson PG: Is quality of life determined by expectations or experience? BMJ 2001, 322:1240-1243 Smith KW, Avis NE, Assmann SF: Distinguishing betweenquality of life and health status in quality of...
... constitutional lawand minority shareholders in corporate law, Professor Anupam Chander said that “minority status among shareholders centers on share ownership and other indicia of control”, and “ignores ... Anupam Chander, “Minorities, Shareholder and Otherwise”, 113 Yale Law Journal (2003) p.162 The Law Commission, Shareholder Remedies, Law Commission Consultation Paper 142 (1996), http://www.lawcom.gov.uk/docs/cp142.pdf, ... (1997), Cases and Materials on Company Law, Blackstone Publisher, p.243 12 Specifically, in case of conflicts between majority shareholders and/ or the management on the one hand, and minority...
... relations between conditions and outcomes (correlations), associations between applied changes and the conditions and outcomes (fixed effects) and variance components at three levels (random effects) ... differed between QICs or hospitals Five fixed effects were included in the model to test the relation between conditions and applied changes (hypothesis A) andbetween applied changes and outcomes ... success and actual outcomes Third, positive relations between perceived success and organisational support and team organisation could be confirmed The direct connection between actual outcomes and...
... relations between conditions and outcomes (correlations), associations between applied changes and the conditions and outcomes (fixed effects) and variance components at three levels (random effects) ... differed between QICs or hospitals Five fixed effects were included in the model to test the relation between conditions and applied changes (hypothesis A) andbetween applied changes and outcomes ... success and actual outcomes Third, positive relations between perceived success and organisational support and team organisation could be confirmed The direct connection between actual outcomes and...
... communication between different multidisciplinary teams will also foster a culture of safety and continual improvement, instead of the (still common) avoidance of error disclosure and analysis ... WB, Wu AW, Pronovost P: Evaluation of two methods for qualityimprovement in intensive care: facilitated incident monitoring and retrospective medical chart review Crit Care Med 2003, 31:1006-1011 ... clinical deteriorations to medical errors, which were mostly diagnostic or treatment errors [10] Root cause analysis of these cases identified 18 processes of care for qualityimprovement Another study...
... feminine ethicsand bioethics and therefore it avoids a problem that plagues some forms of contemporary feminine ethicsand bioethics, namely, that they threaten or even undermine feminist ethics ... Pre-Modem Ideas in Modem Medical Ethics: Paternalism and the Physician as Fiduciary C Virtue-Based and Care Approaches to Bioethics D Sympathy and Empathy E National Bioethics IV CONCLUDING WORD ... of medicalethicsand therefore the history of bioethics To these, I will show in this book, Gregory added the accomplishment of writing the first feminine medicalethics in the history of medical...
... and organizations of people with mental disorders and family members These organizations demand qualityand excellence and monitor whether practice and implementation are of a high standard and ... they maximize qualityand not become an obstacle to qualityimprovement Improved efficiency is an essential goal in relation to both qualityimprovementand cost containment > Planning Quality processes ... managers or qualityimprovement officers should keep themselves well informed about developments in quality assurance, qualityimprovementandquality management Lessons from the quality improvement...
... high quality, software developers know they want to produce a quality product, and users insist that software work consistently and be reliable The American Software Quality (ASQ) Institute andQuality ... standards stifle their creativity, and thus not abide by standards compliance However, for quality to happen, well-defined standards and procedures must be followed Prevention versus Detection Quality ... selecting and implementing a quality assurance standard ISO9001 is a very comprehensive standard and defines all the quality elements required to demonstrate the supplier’s ability to design and deliver...
... Data Medicalquality management : theory and practice / American College of MedicalQuality — 2nd ed p ; cm Rev ed of: Core curriculum for medicalquality management/American College of MedicalQuality ... Additional Resources–Further Reading 195 Chapter InterfacesBetweenQuality Improvement, Law, andMedicalEthics 197 Jeffrey M Zale, MD, MPH, CMQ, and Mano S Selvan, PhD Executive Summary ... Government 199 Rules, Regulations, Laws, and Acts 199 Regulation and Public Laws to Ensure Quality 200 Health Care QualityImprovement Act and Peer Review Protection 201 The National...
... EUROPEAN COMPETITION LAW ANNUAL: 2005 The Interaction between Competition Lawand Intellectual Property Law Edited by Claus-Dieter Ehlermann and Isabela Atanasiu OXFORD PORTLAND OREGON 2007 (A) ... Interaction between Competition Lawand Intellectual Property Law In addition, competition law itself has changed This is most obvious as regards European law Contrary to rst impressions, and beyond ... in EC Competition Lawand Sector-Specic Regulation, pp 313 et seq (Aa) ELR Introduction 1/3/07 16:44 Page xxxi Interaction between Competition Lawand Intellectual Property Law xxxi arrangements...
... Government and Health, by John E McDonough Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint, by Lawrence O Gostin Public Health Lawand Ethics: A Reader, edited by Lawrence O Gostin Public Health LawandEthics ... business and labor, community-based groups, and academic institutions (Keane, Marx, and Ricci 2001a,b; Béchamps, Bialek, and Caulk 1999; Public Health Law, Ethics, and Human Rights Bowser and Gostin ... health ethics from at least two perspectives: the ethics of public health professionals (professional ethics) andethics in public health theory and practice (applied ethics) (Callahan and Jennings...
... direct and positive association between self-efficacy and different health outcomes, Bandura [9] has suggested that self-efficacy might function as a mediator between stress experience and negative ... and well-being outcomes No previous studies have explored associations between GSE and HRQOL in healthy school children The main aim of this study was to examine the association between GSE and ... association between HRQOL, and sociodemographic variables and GSE Both single and multiple regression analyses were performed In the multiple models, we included HRQOL as a dependent variable, and gender...
... and overall quality of life We found no significant relationship between LVEF and any of the other HRQOL variables The absence of associations between LVEF and both physical function and general ... internal demands [19] Thereby, one may propose that coping is a mediator between functional status and the perception of burden in the HRQOL model by Wilson and Cleary [5] According to Lazarus and Folkman ... Association between left ventricular ejection fraction and angina (Angina Frequency Scale) A: Association between left ventricular ejection fraction and angina (Angina Frequency Scale) B: Association between...
... that agreement was highest between children with cancer and their parents for cogni- http://www.hqlo.com/content/4/1/58 tive functioning, and highest between adolescents and parents for physical ... scale (Table 1) Consistency and agreement between self and proxyreported child QOL Correlational consistency Intra-class correlation coefficients between child selfreport and parent proxy-report ... correlations between parents' own QOL ratings and their ratings of their child's QOL These results are consistent with the findings of Eiser, Eiser, and Stride [22] and Goldbeck and Melches [23]...
... with chewing ability [30] and OHRQoL [31,32] in previous studies On the other hand, we observed that the correlation between both constructs was different in men and women and in two categories of ... temporomandibular disorders J Oral Rehabil 2001, 28:463-465 31 Steele JG, Sanders AE, Slade GD, Allen PF, Lahti S, Nuttall N, Spencer AJ: How age and tooth loss affect oral health impacts andquality ... t-test, p < 0.001) Correlation between perceived chewing ability and oral health-related quality of life in partially dentate patients The chewing function score and the OHIP-J14 summary score...
... novel image and video quality assessment andimprovement techniques and systems which are aimed for currently challenging applications in which the visual quality is critical Thirteen outstanding ... image and video applications and new technologies in different fields, such as biology, medicine, engineering, and entertainment The images and videos are compressed, transmitted, captured, and ... this issue and cover four important topics: • Novel image and video processing optimization algorithms based on objective and subjective image quality assessment • Image/video enhancement and analysis...
... novel image and video quality assessment andimprovement techniques and systems which are aimed for currently challenging applications in which the visual quality is critical Thirteen outstanding ... image and video applications and new technologies in different fields, such as biology, medicine, engineering, and entertainment The images and videos are compressed, transmitted, captured, and ... this issue and cover four important topics: • Novel image and video processing optimization algorithms based on objective and subjective image quality assessment • Image/video enhancement and analysis...
... Reyes and the other authors of this book (it was a pleasure to work with all of you), as well as the TAG team, Stacy and Andrew, for their unbending support and friendship Kevin wrote Chapters and ... both in senior U.S Government posts and the private sector Cunningham, now a corporate information and homeland security consultant and Principal at the Denver law firm of Morgan & Cunningham LLC, ... information security programs and other homeland security-related issues and, working with information security consultants, guides and supervises information security assessments and evaluations Bryan...
... search for free text terms describing QICs, and we combined the keywords (non-MeSH) qualityandimprovementand collaborative’ or ‘(series or project) and breakthrough’ The same steps were repeated ... approach to qualityimprovement that involves five essential features, namely, (1) there is a specified topic, (2) clinical experts and experts in qualityimprovement provide ideas and support, ... Overall, all items from the scale ‘clinical experts and experts in qualityimprovement provide ideas and support for improvement (seven items) and ‘the collaborative process involves structured...