Antecedents

Antecedents to hospital deaths.

BACKGROUND Recent studies have suggested there are a large number of potentially preventable deaths in Australian hospitals. AIM This study aimed to document antecedent factors in hospital deaths in an attempt to identify potentially preventative factors. METHODS The study was conducted at three separate acute hospitals. Demographics of all deaths were recorded over a 6-month period as well...

Antecedents of achalasia.

The Antecedents of Man

The announced purpose of this manual is that it serve only as a vade mecum (handbook), not as a textbook of medicine. It appears to fulfill this aim for the most part although in some respects it falls shy of the mark. There are many useful clinical "pearls" scattered throughout its pages and nearly all of the sections include references to recent publications. The section on electrocardiograph...

Antecedents and Performance Effects

This doctoral thesis examines the influence of relative performance and managerial incentives on corporate financial misrepresentation, and then tests the relationship between misrepresentation and subsequent operating performance, including the moderating effects of change in board composition and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) turnover. Using a hand-collected data set from several archival sou...

Antecedents of Perceived Coach

Although social support is integral to the coaching process, there is only a limited understanding of the antecedents of perceived coach support. We applied generalizability theory to examine perceived coach support and its antecedents at perceiver, provider, and relational levels of analysis. Two studies were conducted in which athletes rated the degree to which they identified with a selectio...