... and writing of the paper AMB initially drafted the overall context andtheUK element of the manuscript, and MFG drafted the Australian context, with additions to the context Critical revision ... independent prescribing" might be translated into practice and if it will resemble the developments in Victoria In Australia, ongoing interest will relate to how the Victorian model will affect the national ... [http://www.podboardvic.vic.gov.au/s4endorse.php] In summary, non-medical prescribing is a pragmatic and workable solution to a major challenge facing health services across the Western world Even now it appears to be proving its worth, increasing...
... inthe states of Oregon and most recently Washington, and euthanasia is illegal in every state[93] Euthanasia is, however, legal in some countries, including the Netherlands and Switzerland Interestingly, ... cultural competency and patient-centered training into the curriculum Such abilities are not innate, but rather, they can and should be continually refined and improved Inthe context of these matters, ... professional training, research, prioritizing pain control, and global awareness of palliative medicine[14-16] Palliative care is becoming increasingly valued inthe age of modern medicine where technological...
... Conclusions, including the results of the November 2001 Workshop Management Framework - Introd uced Marine Pests Management capabilities and approaches APEC andthe MRCWG have a role in liaising with ... NACA to enhance the effectiveness of existing instruments within APEC Institutional arrangements for managing the marine environment is fragmented in most economies Baseline surveys to identify ... water and hull fouling are the most important vectors International shipping, aquaculture and biodiversity are most threatened values Amount of commercial shipping and number of trading partners...
... a threat to the boundaries of the accounting jurisdiction F orging the Jurisdiction of Accounting intheUKInthe UK, the emergence of sellers of specialist labour who described themselves as ... from other groups In principle, lawyers were well placed to expand their jurisdiction into the expanding market for business services; and, indeed, some of them did, especially in Scotland where ... capacity to defend and expand other lucrative (and growth) areas (e.g other business services) Inthe words of the President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in E ngland and Wales (ICAE...
... and which can be collected by simply downloading them over the Internet The purpose of the MINERVA prototype was to gain insights into the practical issues involved in collecting and organizing ... unsurprising that the US, having led the way in terms of developing, and then commercialising, the Internet, would have one of the oldest and largest operations dedicated to archiving websites, inthe ... be the main thrust of the Act It drafters intended the CDA to introduce new criminal offences of knowingly creating, sending, transmitting or displaying obscene or indecent materials to minors,...
... addressed to increasing criminalisation Against this background, it is surprising that so little has been written about the role of criminal sanctions inthe protection of the consumer The criminal law ... over-criminalisation in general, and it is ix x Preface largely inthe regulatory field that the increase in criminalisation has been witnessed It will be argued that while there is merit in these concerns, criminal ... This page intentionally left blank Consumer Protection andthe Criminal Law Law, Theory, and Policy intheUK To what extent should criminal law be used to protect the consumer? In this important...
... probability; Describing dependence among the extremes of different series, and using this description inthe problem of managing a portfolio of investments; and Modeling extremes inthe presence ... including varying the threshold and performing regression analysis on various covariates (including the size of the spill in barrels, the x coordinate of plot (c)), but none succeeded in explaining this ... searching for trends in extreme value data, using the point process approach The method is applied to the North Carolina windspeed data introduced in Section 1.4 In this kind of example, it is of interest,...
... the wings, andthe tail) caused by moving FACO away from Fort Worth and to a UK site, thereby reducing work at Fort Worth and increasing the overhead rate there; and (4) the effect of adding FACO ... collection andinthe meetings Lorraine Johnson, at theUK Department of Trade and Industry, provided further insight into the aerospace sector of theUK econ omy Linda Lloyd of the Society ... aircraft The point is that both the USN and USAF have expended effort of some magnitude at their depots maintaining, repairing, or upgrading these aircraft The lag between introduction into the...
... not affect the involvement of the state inthe energy and finance sectors andinthe bulk of the industry and services-related activities The privatization program is hampered by the rule that ... improving human capital, attracting foreign investment and increasing theopenness of the economy to the outside world (see Sections 3, and 7.4) Financial development as proxied by the initial ... suggests an increase inthe FDI to GDP ratio in all countries The increase is highest (almost percentage points) in Jordan and non-negligible in Egypt, Israel and Tunisia (above 0.6 percentage points)...
... messages intheUK may also have been increased by the handling of the information of therisk associated with the “Mad Cow” diseases inthe mid-Nineties andthe allegation of cover up by the government ... over-report their uptake 25 The variables measuring the frequency of contact with the grandmother andthe mother’s perception of the quality of the area are presented here in binary form; inthe regressions ... connection (either inthe house or through work), frequency of contact with the grandmother, the mother’s perception of the quality of the neighborhood, whether the mother worked inthe NHS before the...
... the radiation-induced risk lasted for 40 years rather than indefinitely reduced risks by 25% in males and 14% in females Increasing or decreasing organ dose estimates increased or decreased the ... years and 74 years Netherlands Finland Kuwait The higher colon-cancer cumulative risk 0·5 UK Poland in females compared with males was mainly due to the larger parameter inthe radiation risk ... cancers combined.1 IntheUK these nine cancer sites account for 56% of total cumulative risk of all solid cancers to age 75 years in men and for 61% in women Among the remainder, the largest...
... into their systems and subsystems The methodology raises the application of the model with a cyclical and interactive character, where is prevailing the training and group decision, andthe individual ... method and technique to obtain information and execute measurements according to the defined actions to obtain the necessary information Interpretation of results: Includes the processing and analysis ... and others, who are able to obtain the executing engineers and investors inthe region, area or locality where the work is located and also the correct application of the rules, regulations and...
... between prescriptions for the index drug, and (c) were not initiated on olanzapine and risperidone on the same day Importantly, the inclusion of patients who were continuously treated with the index ... from initiation to the first hospitalization during the year post initiation Individuals who were inpatients at initiation and were not discharged from their index hospitalization by the end of the ... enrollment inthe study and initiation on the index drug, and for time between initiation on the index drug and an arbitrary date (July 1, 2000) The latter was calculated to assess the potential...
... to continue receiving on-going care from their PCPs They received a folder at the conclusion of the baseline visit including handouts from the American Heart Association containing basic information ... by physician j in clinic k, Risk0 ijk is therisk score at baseline (time 0), Intijk is the intervention vs control status of the i-th participant inthe same clinic and under the same physician, ... physicians In addition, any potential for contamination produces a conservative bias, reducing the measured impact of the intervention and biasing the findings towards the null hypothesis Furthermore,...
... all potential confounding and mediating variables men and women with psychiatric disorder had a higher risk death between 36-60 years, andtherisk was also increased inthe mildly symptomatic ... containing data on all the major potential confounding variables Health inequalities are of increasing public health and policy interest That psychiatric disorders are associated with death is insufficiently ... undertaken to compare the effects of psychiatric disorder on adult mortality risk, first including and then excluding this missing category We identified 22 cases of schizophrenia inthe sample All...
... changes inthe culture of drinking intheUKin general andthe Armed Forces inthe last decade [33,34], although the measures used were different inthe two studies Prevalence of PTSD in this ... large military cohort inthe US (The Millennium cohort) [26] In spite of the methodological differences in sampling and some of the instruments used prevalence between theUKandthe US cohorts are ... between theUKand US found here may reflect differences inthe culture of drinking or differences inthe rate of deployment inthe two samples as alcohol misuse increases after deployment [36] There...
... efficacy of heroin prescribing – in short – we need more heroin trials? Underlying this is the NL and JS are the Chief Investigators, and NM is the Trial Co-ordinator and Co-investigator These three ... Semi-structured interviews will also explore the broader experience of prescribed and non-prescribed heroin use, exploring the contextual influence of the clinical setting itself inthe construction of individual's ... heroin doses), thereby limiting the interpretation of two of the three published RCTs There are many reasons why patients may continue regular heroin injecting during their methadone treatment These...
... affected by discounting as they are incurred inthe first year, while diminishing the clinical benefits and cost savings achieved in subsequent years The vaccine coverage rate applied inthe base case ... vaccine efficacy input parameter was adjusted inthe model in order to best reflect the efficacy in reducing the incidence of PHN As a result, the PHN vaccine efficacy input parameter used inthe ... inthe UK, where a predetermined vaccine coverage rate is achieved for each age group at the start of the model, andthe current policy intheUK of no vaccination Under these two policies, the...