Intensive care performance: How should we monitor performance in the future?

Intensive care performance: How should we monitor performance in the future?

Intensive care faces economic challenges. Therefore, evidence proving both effectiveness and efficiency, i.e., cost-effectiveness, of delivered care is needed. Today, the quality of care is an important issue in the health care debate. How do we measure quality of care and how accurate and representative is this measurement? In the following report, several topics which are used for the evaluat...

Social status determines how we monitor and evaluate our performance.

Since people with low status are more likely to experience social evaluative threat and are therefore more inclined to monitor for these threats and inhibit approach behaviour, we expected that low-status subjects would be more engaged in evaluating their own performance, compared with high-status subjects. We created a highly salient social hierarchy based on the performance of a simple time e...

Future collapse: how optimistic should we be?

Prof. Kelly FRS is optimistic about the chances of avoiding a collapse, but sadly we find his arguments entirely unpersuasive. For example, have Malthus (or we) really been wrong about food security? Roughly 850 million people are seriously undernourished (lacking sufficient calories) today, and perhaps 2 billion are mal-nourished (lacking one or more essential nutrients) [1]. When Malthus live...

How Should We Pay for Health Care?

investigating the relationship between creativity and performance in written narrative tasks

با بکارگیری کوریلیشن و آنوا در قسمت اول و تی تست در قسمت دوم آنالیز داده ها انجام گردیدکه نهایتا رابطه بین برخی فاکتورهای خلاقیت و نوشتار یافت شد