the past caretaking standard and the choice of primary care giver

... performed the analysis and drafted the manuscript SE and BJ contributed to the selection of variables and model applications DE participated in the development of the methodology, selection of the The ... atypical of the country as a whole Moreover, they will also be wrong if they not allow the cost of an outpatient visit to change as coverage increases Because most of the studies of the costs of scaling ... not available There have been several applications of the latter, including estimating the cost-effectiveness of a large set of interventions as part of the WHO -CHOICE [76,77] and the Disease Control...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... levels of difficulty, supporting the conclusion that assigning doctors and, to a lesser extent, professional nurses to the bulk of the tasks involved in primary care was not the best use of these ... such as primary care This article is one of two papers reporting the results of a large study that examined staffing patterns in VA primary care via the use of a primary care task bank [27] The current ... criteria, the final sites were selected on the basis of feasibility of scheduling and travel and the availability of participants Table lists how the six sites compare on these and other characteristics...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22

... respondents made the hypothetical product choice and then read and judged the argument, they were asked to rate the importance of the issue and the carefulness with which they read the argument There are ... manipulated through the prices assigned to the two choices In the conditions favoring the high choice, the prices for the two options were the same In the condition favoring the low choice, the high option ... 2001) and then to the consumer who selects the brand (McCracken 1989) Consumers therefore construct AESTHETIC PRODUCT CHOICE AND THE SELF and maintain self-concepts through the use of branded consumer...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 17:20

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 02:20

... Seguin and colleagues enable us to gain deeper insight into the regional effects of catecholamines Nevertheless, for the safe and beneficial use of catecholamines in the stabilisation of septic ... concerning the effects of patient outcome In the light of this, it is good to know that there is an increasing number of study groups aiming to find answers on many important questions in intensive care ... flow in the critically III Chest 1995, 108:1648-1654 Smithies M, Yee TH, Jackson L, Beale R, Bihari D: Protecting the gut and the liver in the critically ill: effects of dopexamine Crit Care Med...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:22

... observes x and the fraction of speculators who decide to attack the band, α, and then decides whether or not to defend the band If he does, the exchange rate stays at the boundary of the band and the ... and Reinhart 2002) On the other hand, following the EMS currency crisis at the beginning of the 1990s, the prior system of cooperative pegs was replaced by wide bands until the formation of the ... bands The paper focuses on the trade-offs that determine the optimal band width by analyzing the strategic interaction between the ex ante choice of exchange-rate regime and the behavior of...

Ngày tải lên: 28/11/2014, 17:18

... observes x and the fraction of speculators who decide to attack the band, α, and then decides whether or not to defend the band If he does, the exchange rate stays at the boundary of the band and the ... and Reinhart 2002) On the other hand, following the EMS currency crisis at the beginning of the 1990s, the prior system of cooperative pegs was replaced by wide bands until the formation of the ... bands The paper focuses on the trade-offs that determine the optimal band width by analyzing the strategic interaction between the ex ante choice of exchange-rate regime and the behavior of...

Ngày tải lên: 29/11/2014, 11:26

... data, interpreted data and revised the manuscript HTS and FK had full access to all the study data and assume responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the analysis References ... the value that deviated the furthest from the median of the reference range was taken Where there was no difference between the minimum and maximum value from the median, the maximum value was ... funded hospital care to the residents of the city of Calgary and surrounding areas (population 1.2 million) in the province of Alberta, Canada [14] All critically ill adult patients in the CHR are...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:31

... Scientific and Technical Information of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (VINITI) and the German Zentrale Informationsverarbeitung Chemie, Berlin (ZIC) and supplied by the German software company, ... (3) The file segment INFOCHEM includes records derived from the reaction collection jointly built by the All-Union Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of the Academy of Sciences of ... the CODEN and ISSN and appends /ISN to the terms created by SELECT Selects or analyzes the ISSN and appends /ISN to the terms Selects or analyzes the IC, ICA, ICI and appends /IPC to the terms...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 14:20

... directory of alcohol services and accommodation should be developed for the benefit of NHSScotland staff, patients and their families, friends and carers n 35 THE MANAGEMENT OF HARMFUL DRINKING AND ... during the introduction of what may be a new way of reacting to the drinker and the drinking The family are helped to: understand the nature of alcohol dependence improve communication with the ... INTRODUCTION 1.4 STATEMENT OF INTENT This guideline is not intended to be construed or to serve as a standard of medical care Standards of care are determined on the basis of all clinical data available...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 14:20

... means of ordered logit models the impacts of age, dependency and other factors on probabilities to use home and community care for the elderly With these models and the age profile of the institutional ... costs and the expenses of the social and health services are increasing The report analyses the factors influencing the use of social and health services by the elderly On the basis of the analysis, ... explanatory variables and the intensity of the care considered As indicated in the five last columns in the Table 2, the signs of the marginal values are choice specific The full set of marginal values...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 17:20

... both the bond market and the syndicated loan market have been treated in isolation,3 there has been little analysis of the choice of debt instrument — of the choice between bonds and loans — and ... analyze these issues, I apply a theory of the firm’s choice of debt instrument from the corporate finance literature to the case of emerging market debt The model suggests that the choice of debt ... probability of success of the risky project, π, is higher; — the efficiency of monitoring, P , is higher and the cost of monitoring, C, is lower; — the cost of default, D, and the cost of loan cancellation,...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 07:20

... (d) contains most verbs of Quantum Change, together with one verb of Production and Constitution each The semantics of the cluster is therefore rather pure The verbs in the cluster typically subcategorise ... classes C, in the clustering partition C and M3 in the manual classification M; the marginals t i and t refer to the number of objects in C, and M3 , respectively The adjusted Rand index R a ... gold standard of hand-constructed verb classes requires to assess the similarity between two partitions on the set of n verbs The evaluation is performed by an adjusted version of the Rand index...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 22:20

... from the councils of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine The members of the committee responsible for the report were chosen for their ... dedicated to the furtherance of science and technology and to their use for the general welfare Upon the authority of the charter granted to it by the Congress in 1863, the Academy has a mandate that ... inadequacy of M/SU health care is a dimension of the poor quality of all health care The quality problems of overall health care received substantial attention among the health care community and the...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 16:21

... Furthermore, these analyses imply different relationships among the two types of care, the methods of measuring quality, and the three aspects of growth Even though the two types of care are correlated, ... quality of care affects health However, the reduced form equation captures the combined direct and indirect benefits of quality care rather than solely their influences on behavioral choices The ... magnitude of the prenatal and child care process quality coefficients increase slightly with the omission of the structural quality measures in Models and 6, and the prenatal process care coefficient...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 06:20

... technology in the prevention of stroke and the corresponding rates of utilization in the US and Canada They show that utilization rates increased dramatically between 1989 and 1995 following the publication ... on the second moment of the distribution Although the inputs have an impact on the dependent variable, this result, in light of the law of diminishing marginal productivity, supports the hypothesis ... that explains the evolution in the value of life and its relation with health spending They calculate the marginal cost of saving a life at di¤erent ages and over time in the US, and …nd that...

Ngày tải lên: 01/04/2014, 00:20

... self-assess [7] Thus, audit and feedback focuses on addressing the gap between ideal and actual care that is within the control of the health care provider and is often the foundation of multifaceted quality ... that they found the instructions clear and advised no changes to the design To our knowledge, the application of this type of worksheet as a means of ‘enhancing’ the effectiveness of audit and ... clusters Most of the power in cluster-trials comes from the number of clusters, rather than the number of patients Therefore, dropout of a few participating physicians (or many of their patients)...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... to the design of the study and coauthored the article BT contributed to the design of the study, participated in the training of GPs, and coauthored this article CM contributed to the design of ... of the economic evaluation and coauthored the article DV coauthored the article GF contributed to the design of the study and coauthored the article HS contributed to the design of the study and ... ZonMW, the Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development Author details Netherlands Institute of Mental Health and Addiction (Trimbos-institute), Utrecht, the Netherlands 2The EMGO...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20

... co-wrote the paper EA designed the economic evaluation of the study MVD assisted in the design of the study and co-wrote the paper ED assisted in the design of the study and the intervention and co-wrote ... intervention, and wrote the paper MS designed the study and the intervention, and co-wrote the paper ST introduced and planned the stepped wedge design of the study RL codesigned the intervention and co-wrote ... the basis of the range of extremes The effect analysis adheres to the design of the study Relevant for the economic evaluation are the frequency of depression (measured with GDS-8 and CSDD) and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... principally on the significance of these findings in the context of our current understanding of BMP receptor biology, and relate the data to our knowledge of inheritance patterns and disease pathophysiology ... includes the three mammalian TGF-β isoforms, the activins and inhibins, and over 30 members of the BMP subfamily [7,8] Unlike the mammalian TGF-β isoforms, BMPs are secreted in an active form and, ... mutations in the BMPR-II gene have been described in both FPPH and sporadic PPH [2–5] These span the entire open reading frame of the BMPR-II gene, with the exception of exons 5, 10 and 13 The mutations...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20