OBJECTIVE To evaluate a community engaged vertically integrated teaching and learning pilot project. METHOD Thematic analysis of focus group interviews was used to examine 27 general practitioners' (GPs'), registrars' and medical students' perceptions of a vertically integrated workshop in adolescent health and subsequent small group health education sessions at two secondary schools. Pre- an...

This paper presents an investigation of a pilot project that implemented a mobile payment platform in a poor community in Brazil. This project involved the creation of a network of organizations that includes a local microfinance institution, a large retail bank, a mobile phone operator, an international credit card company, and an acquirer, as well as small local merchants. The objective of th...

We present a catalog of 246 radio sources found in the central 1 degree of the COSMOS field at 1.4GHz. The VLA pilot project data have a resolution of 1.9×1.6 and an rms noise limit of ∼ 25-100μJy/beam covering 0.837 deg. About 20 radio sources are clearly extended and most of them appear to be double-lobed radio galaxies. We find evidence for a cluster of 7 radio sources with an extent of ∼10 ...

PURPOSE A feasible palliative care model for advance cancer patients is needed in Korea with its rapidly aging population and corresponding increase in cancer prevalence. This study describes the process involved in the development of a community-based palliative care (CBPC) model implemented originally in a Busan pilot project. MATERIALS AND METHODS The model development included steps I and...

Case studies are among the most common evaluation methods, often used for program promotional efforts rather than as a systematic method for evaluating program processes and outcomes. A pilot project to produce case studies which more systematically adhere to a defined methodology was directed by Robert Yin, President of COSMOS Corporation, and funded by the Manufacturing Extension Partnership ...

The levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in human milk provide an index of exposure of the mother to these compounds and enable the intake by the breast-fed child to be estimated. For valid comparisons between different studies, concentrations should be expressed on a milk fat basis. In a recently completed UNEP/WHO pilot project on monitoring of organochlorine compounds in human milk in ...

In September 2000 the Commonwealth released, as part of its National Palliative Care Strategy under the Australian Health Care Agreements, a National Framework for Palliative Care Service Development. The new National Framework stressed an important set of values to guide models of palliative care delivery. It notes that the challenge is to secure the place of palliative care as an integral par...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE It has been shown that erythropoietin is neuroprotective in animal models of neurodegenerative diseases including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The aim of this study was to determine the safety and feasibility of repetitive high-dose recombinant human erythropoietin (rhEPO) therapy in ALS patients. METHODS Two consecutive studies were conducted. We first recruite...

PURPOSE The aim of hospice care is to provide the best possible quality of life both for people approaching the end of life and for their families and carers. The Korean government has been implementing a pilot project for hospital hospice services and trying to develop the national hospice system. To assist in the development of the Korean hospice system, the Korean government supported the pr...

Alcohol misuse is linked to over 60 diseases and harmful conditions, from acute related harm such as serious injury to risky sexual practice and long term chronic mental and physical health issues such as liver disease and the early onset of dementia. In Wales, harm caused by alcohol costs the NHS over £85 million per year and is responsible for 1 in 30 deaths. A national programme of brief int...