Several types of activities are mandated by grants that help support the state offices. First, state offices collect and disseminate information. State offices provide data and information to consumers, providers, policy makers, and other stakeholders. Information is disseminated to individual clients, as well as via newsletters. Topics are varied; examples include extent of underserved populat...

This study examines how lawsuits against auditors affect the audit pricing and client acceptance strategies of both the audit offices responsible for the failed audit and other audit offices of the same audit firm. We find that non-litigation offices of litigation audit firms decrease their fees following the filing of a lawsuit. However, audit offices involved in litigation increase their audi...

1. Statistical offices collect large amounts of data for statistical purposes. Respondents are only willing to provide the statistical offices with the required information if they can be certain that these offices will disseminate their data with the utmost care. This implies that the confidentiality of the data must be assured. Therefore the amount of detail in the publications has to be limi...

We studied the bias and precision of serum cholesterol analysis by physician's office analyzers. Total imprecision (CV range, %) for analysis of serum pools was: Abbott Vision 1.5%-1.9%; Ames Seralyzer 3.9%-4.5%; BMD Reflotron 2.3%-3.8%; Chrometrics Cholesterol Test System 2.3%-2.8%; Kodak DT-60 1.6%-2.2%. The Ames Seralyzer exhibited an excessive between-run component of variation. We collecte...

Limited attention has been given to the concept of place in social work research and practice. This paper draws on the national evaluation of social work practices (SWPs) in England undertaken between 2009 and 2012. SWPs were pilot organisations providing independent social work services for children in out-of-home care in five sites. One factor distinguishing some of these pilots was their att...

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OBJECTIVE To explore how students learn in community-based family physicians' offices from the student's point of view. METHOD Each student completing a community-based family medicine clerkship wrote a "critical incident" narrative about an event that was particularly educational. A coding system was developed by a multidisciplinary research team and thematic analysis was conducted. RESULT...

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