PSYCHIATRIC SERVICES ♦ June 1999 Vol. 50 No. 6 835 Letters from readers are welcomed. They will be published at the discretion of the editor as space permits and will be subject to editing. They should be a maximum of 500 words with no more than five references and should include the writer’s telephone and fax numbers and e-mail address. Letters related to material published in Psychiatric Serv...

Abstract This study investigates the level of digitalization as well opportunities and challenges from perspective sawmill representatives. The business processes was assessed by a survey on criteria regarding processes. questions dealt with existence basic data processing, digitally networked information communication products services. Over 700 small medium sized sawmills were contacted e-mai...

Mailed surveys are widely used to collect epidemiological and health service data on cancer populations. Nonresponse can threaten the validity of surveys and various strategies, including the enclosure of modest incentives, are often used to increase response rates. A study was undertaken to determine whether response rate to a mailed survey differed with provision of immediate versus delayed i...

OBJECTIVE This study compares pre- and posttest Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI-Self) scores for public health leaders who completed the Regional Institute for Health and Environmental Leadership (RIHEL) training program at least 2 years earlier; it seeks to identify factors contributing to changes in practices and overall leadership development for public health and environment leaders. ...

Recent reports suggest the need for further study of the impact of organizational characteristics on quality-related activities in health centers. To better understand these issues, a cross-sectional assessment of quality-related activities in Health Resources and Services Administration-funded health centers was conducted using a mailed questionnaire. Associations between the extent and freque...

0963-8687/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier B.V doi:10.1016/j.jsis.2011.03.006 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +47 22852545; fax: E-mail addresses: [email protected] (M. Aanes 1 Tel.: +45 38152455. Initiatives that seek to realize the vision of nation-wide information infrastructures (II) in healthcare have often failed to achieve their goals. In this paper, we focus on approaches used to plan, c...

OBJECTIVE A growing strategy to enhancing healthy decision making is to modify behavioral options to an "opt out" (i.e., if you do not want to participate, you must act) as opposed to an "opt in" (i.e., if you want to participate, you must act) default system (Choi, Laibson, Madrian, & Metrick). The current study, however, proposes that this growing trend may not always be strategic and examine...

A survey was done on the needs and resources available to control epilepsy in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. Responses came from ministries of health, prominent neurologists, and epilepsy advocacy organizations. A mailed questionnaire was used, and the response rate was excellent, 89%. The survey results showed that the private sector is better equipped to deal with epilepsy ...