The objective of this 6-year retroactive chart review is to compare outcome between chemically dependent physicians and physician assistants under contract with the North Carolina Physicians Health Program (NCPHP). Of 233 physicians 91% had a good outcome, compared to only 59% of 34 physician assistants in this sample (significant by Chi Square method, 99.99% confidence). Fifteen percent of phy...

Previous investigations have presented evidence for an increased prevalence of late cognitive effects in dental personnel exposed to metallic mercury. We wanted to examine if there was a correlation between mercury exposure and cognitive effects in a Norwegian population of dental workers, and if so, to quantify the occurrence. The study group consisted of 608 female dental assistants from cent...

BACKGROUND This article concerns Swedish patients receiving 24-hour home care from health care assistants (HC assistants) employed by the municipality. Home care is a complex interactive process involving the patient, family, HC assistants as well as professional care providers. Previous studies exploring patient perspectives on home care have been based mainly on patient interviews. In contras...

rapidly and accurately are important. Good interpersonal skills also are vital, because mail distribution clerks work closely with other postal workers, frequently under the tension and strain of meeting dispatch or transportation deadlines and quotas. Postal Service workers often begin on a part-time, flexible basis and become regular or full time, in order of seniority as vacancies occur. Ful...

Full references Alborz, A., Pearson, D., Farrell, P., Howes, A. (2009). The impact of adult support staff on pupils and mainstream schools. Technical Report. In: Research Evidence in Education Library. London: EPPICentre, Social Science Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London. Blatchford, P., Bassett, P., Brown, P., Koutsoubou, M., Martin, C., Russell, A. and Webster, R., wi...

Traditional intelligence analysis suffers from several systemic problems including: information overload; intelligence sharing difficulties; lack of time, methods, and resources for analytic collaboration with area experts; limited capabilities in regard to the consideration of multiple hypotheses; sociocultural and socio-psychological bias informing the analytic process; lack of time and resou...