Recruiting surgery staff.

Obstetric surgery for perioperative staff and midwives.

Where a pregnant woman experiences trauma or has acute surgical needs there are additional concerns for the well being of both the woman and her foetus. This article explores obstetric procedures for the pregnant woman and discusses the implications for perioperative staff and midwives.

Aligning staff with business goals builds a stronger surgery department.

Recruiting Talent

We propose a model of firm dynamics in which a firm’s primary asset is the talent of its workforce. Firms compete in wages to attract applicants, and managers seek to identify the most talented. Over time, a firm’s quality evolves as today’s recruits become tomorrow’s managers. We show that firm-applicant matching is positive assortative, with better firms posting higher wages and attracting be...

Impact of training for site staff recruiting into trials of rare skin diseases: experiences from stop gap and blister

Background Nottingham Clinical Trials Unit is co-ordinating two RCTs in rare skin diseases: one recruited people with pyoderma gangrenosum (STOP GAP), the other people with bullous pemphigoid (BLISTER). Sites were initially identified via the UK Dermatology Clinical Trials Network (http://www.ukdctn.org) without using formal site selection criteria. Many sites were naive, having not recruited t...

Recruiting Ant Colony System

We briefly describe an approach to extend the Ant Colony System by a group recruitment strategy. The underlying idea is very similar to the behavior of real ants, which use e.g. tandem-techniques to guide each other to large food sources. General investigations with small and medium sized colonies have shown that such strategies in combination with mass recruitment (pheromones) increase the foo...