Hospital admissions among patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) are a major contributor to health care costs. A comprehensive disease management program for CHF was developed for private and statutory health insurance companies in order to improve health outcomes and reduce rehospitalization rates and costs. The program comprises care calls, written training material, telemetric monitori...

People attribute minds to other individuals and make inferences about those individuals' mental states to explain and predict their behavior. Little is known, however, about whether people also attribute minds to groups and believe that collectives, companies, and corporations can think, have intentions, and make plans. Even less is known about the consequences of these attributions for both gr...

Agri-food companies play an economic, social, and environmental role. In Italy, the typical products protected by European Union with PDO PGI marks are spread throughout national territory, even in disadvantaged ones, generate turnover, employment, positive effects related industries. These often of medium or small size (SMEs) financially constrained. The research applies assessment financial s...

This research aimed to examine the impact of governance on financial performance companies listed in Amman and Palestine stock exchanges, by measuring with several indicators: gender diversity board members, size directors, duality position CEO, independence academic qualifications members. As for performance, it is measured using return assets equity. A sample (52) industrial (21) banks distri...

Duty of loyalty and due care the board’s members have been lately introduced to provisions Polish Commercial Companies Code. This paper aims define duty board members, as presented in doctrine, well British, Spanish, German laws. Additionally, impact new on liability shall be described.

BACKGROUND Clinical practice guidelines (CPG) are developed, endorsed, and disseminated through professional medical organizations such as the American Psychiatric Association (APA) as the standard of care for health care providers. Because of their influence, it is critical that CPG are based on objective data, unprejudiced by stakeholder groups, and that any financial associations between aut...

Recent research on cultural production has drawn attention to significant inequalities. This paper aims unpack one possible explanation for these inequalities by focusing the people with ultimate responsibility arts institutions: boards of directors. Using data from UK's Companies House, it analyses Arts Council England's National Portfolio Organisations. It then “hops” other organisations whom...

the major purpose of this study was to identify factors influencing the design of agriculturaladvisory service network in the west azerbaijan province of iran. the population of thisresearch consisted of consultants who provided services to farmers. by using a cochranformula, 306 respondents were selected. the results showed that consultants faced manyobstacles such as lack of necessary facilit...