In this session, panelist members of the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine (CAHCIM) share what has been successful in the implementation of integrative healthcare across different health systems and academic health centers. Some use what may be termed a “vertical” model, or one that is a stand-alone entity that operates outside of the health system or academic healt...

Defect bash is a co-located testing session performed by a group of people. We performed a systematic review of the academic and grey literature, i.e. informally published writings, of the defect bash. Altogether, we found 44 items (17 academic and 27 grey literature sources) that were identified useful for the review. Based on the review the definition of defect bash is presented, benefits and...

2.Was a literature review of academic sources completed? The authors state that: “Our review was not conducted as a formal systematic comprehensive review; rather, we focused on primary and grey literature presenting academic, health practitioner and First Nations viewpoints on the topic” (Methods, page 2). Could the authors provide more information on methodology including what information was...

In this paper the importance and the effects of technological opportunities, stemming from academic research, on the innovation activities of firms in the German automobile supply industry are investigated. We observe that the contribution of academic research to firms’ innovation activities is less important than the relevance of industrial sources but yet, the most likely partners for formal ...

The present study resulted in the development of a measure for the four sources of selfefficacy expectations postulated by Bandura’s (1977, 1997) theory in the domain of social behaviors. The four sources subscales were internally consistent and related as postulated to relevant criterion measures and theoretical constructs. Examination of the degree to which the four sources of social self-eff...

BACKGROUND There are few Australian studies showing how research evidence is used to inform the development of public health policy. International research has shown that compensation for injury rehabilitation can have negative impacts on health outcomes. This study examined transport injury compensation policy in the Australian state of Victoria to: determine type and purpose of reference to i...