Purpose – This paper seeks to provide a discourse-based critique of the laddering interviewing technique, and to make academics as well as practitioners aware of some of the limitations in applying this particular consumer interviewing technique. Design/methodology/approach – The paper first describes the laddering interviewing technique, which traditionally has been conceptualised within a cog...

This paper analyzes the impact of instability brought about by change directors on risk corporate debt default from perspective fusion old and new directors. Combining Ab-sorptive Capacity Theory Embeddedness Theory, one hand, threshold effect hard integration proportion directors; other through number well-integrated people, ability-based role matching cultural-based group between directors, i...

Despite the high prevalence of psychiatric and behavioral problems in primary care, many physicians receive little training in psychiatry. A model curriculum has been developed for the Federated Council for Internal Medicine Task Force on the Internal Medicine Residency Curriculum. A detailed description of the curriculum was outlined by Steven A. Cole and colleagues (General Hospital Psychiatr...

Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education: This article presents the concerns of not involving the younger generation in the management section of hospitals especially in the private practice sector. Copyright © 2013, Trauma Research Center; Licensee Kowsar Ltd. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http:/...

Take a look at the makeup of most hospital and health system boards of directors. You might find a community philanthropist, a banker, a partner in a prestigious law firm, several successful business executives, and perhaps a physician. But chances are you won’t find a nurse. While nurses act in leadership roles in many healthcare settings, they remain largely overlooked for board positions—the...

Rationale/purpose In European club football, balancing sports and business is challenging. The clubs operate in a complex context, with competing institutional demands. face demand for sporting as well financial performance, the purpose of this study to examine how manage logics order prevent distress.Design/methodology/approach This applies case design, data were collected by interviewing peop...

OBJECTIVES To discuss the problems encountered teaching interviewing skills to first year medical students and describe their responses to a structured workshop in interviewing skills. METHODS Focus groups and a short evaluation questionnaire filled in by 56 first year medical students before and after a workshop in interviewing skills were used. RESULTS All students evaluated their skills ...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa background: coronary artery bypass graft is one of common cardiac surgeries which unfortunately accompany with some adverse events such as delirium. proinflammatory processes play an important role in pathogenesis of post-operative delirium. therefore, the effect of dexamethasone (dex) on post-operative delirium after cardiac surgery was evaluated. ...

BACKGROUND Substance misuse is now encountered in settings beyond addiction specialty care, with schools a point-of-contact for student access to behavioral health services. Marijuana is a leading impetus for adolescent treatment admissions despite declining risk perception, for which the Teen Marijuana Check-Up (TMCU)-a tailored adaptation of motivational enhancement therapy-offers an efficaci...