The Article is a case study regarding a rule governing cooling water towers for power plants promulgated pursuant to the Clean Water Act (”CWA”). It analyzes the history of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (”OIRA”) within the Office of Management and Budget (”OMB”), and its influence in compelling the Environmental Protection Agency (”EPA”) to conduct cost-benefit analysis of al...

This article uses a comprehensive database about children in adversity collected over the 16-year period from 1990 to 2005 in the state of Western Australia. The focus of this interrogation is the effect of major changes in responses to information about children brought to the attention of the Western Australian statutory authority in a 10-year period during this 16 years. The initiative for t...

Virtually 100% of the German population has health insurance. Of this 100%, approximately 90% are members of the Statutory Health Insurance plan. This insurance plan assumes responsibility for practically all of the costs of treatment; self-participation by the patient in the costs is minimal. To counteract the financial deficits of the Statutory Health Insurance funds, the Health Care Reform A...

In 1997, the authors undertook a collaborative research project with Barnardos, Australia, exploring domestic violence and child protection. The aim of the project was to develop and articulate a set of practice and policy principles to enhance future intervention with non-offending parents (over 98% of whom are women) and their children. The project involved three sages: observation of intake ...

BACKGROUND Patients undergoing major orthopaedic surgery (MOS), such as total hip (THR) or total knee replacement (TKR), are at high risk of developing venous thromboembolism (VTE). For thromboembolism prophylaxis, the oral anticoagulant rivaroxaban has recently been included in the German diagnosis related group (DRG) system. However, the cost-effectiveness of rivaroxaban is still unclear from...