Single-segment (focused) firms have a natural disadvantage compared to multi-segment (diversified) with respect to voluntary disclosure policy. Since aggregate disclosures by focused firms are at a finer level of detail than those of diversified firms, the latter have greater ability to react to focused firm information and therefore have a competitive advantage. I provide evidence that focused...

objective : to ascertain cancer patients' views regarding disclosure of diagnosis in the pakistani population, anxiety levels after disclosure of the diagnosis, interest in knowing all the treatment options and desire to inform their families. patients and methods : in this cross-sectional study, 147 cancer patients from different hospitals in pakistan were asked questions to determine their op...

OBJECTIVE To describe the frequency medication error disclosure to the team and to the family in an oncology pediatric patients' intensive care unit. METHODS This was a descriptive and exploratory study performed between March 1 and May 31, 2008. A medication error report form was developed and implemented, to be completed by the professionals involved in the unit's medication process. RESU...

Disclosure limitation methods for protecting the confidentiality ofrespondents in survey microdata often use perturbative techniques whichintroduce measurement error into the categorical identifying variables. Inaddition, the data itself will often have measurement errors commonly arisingfrom survey processes. There is a need for valid and practical ways to assess theprotect...