Objective: Traditional health care systems were not capable to face successfully with chronic diseases including diabetes mellitus. In this regard, the Chronic Care Model or CCM was created to promote quality of care. The aim of this study was to examine whether establishment of chronic care model, with focus on diabetic patients, has led to clinically significant outcomes in Iran. Materials a...

Banks supply payment services that underpin the smooth operation of the economy. To ensure an effi cient payment system, it is important to maintain competition among payment service providers, but data available to gauge the degree of competition are quite limited. We propose and implement a frontierbased method to assess relative competition in bank-provided payment services. Billion dollar b...

By means of a simulated funding-agency/supported-firm stochastic dynamic game, this paper shows that the level of the subsidy provided by a funding (public) agency, normally used to correct for firm R&D shortage, might be severely underprovided. This is due to the "externalities" generated by the agency-firm strategic relationship, as showed by comparing two versions of the model: one assuming ...

In this paper, we consider First-order fuzzy differential equations with initial value conditions. The convergence, consistency and stability of difference method for approximating the solution of fuzzy differential equations involving generalized H-differentiability, are studied. Then the local truncation error is defined and sufficient conditions for convergence, consistency and stability of ...