With recent advances in harnessing the knowledge and skill of large groups of (unknown) network-connected humans, researchers and practitioners have been designing systems that make contributions of users entertaining and more engaging. Game mechanics are being applied to the traditional human computation tasks, such as transcription, classification and labeling. Seminal examples of such applic...

Affirm our commitment to equity in health and recognize that the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being without distinction of race, religion, political belief, economic or social condition. We recognize that governments have a responsibility for the health of their people and that equity in health is an expression of social ...

Although "valuing diversity" has become a watchword, field research on the impact of a culturally diverse workforce on organizational performance has not been forthcoming. Invoking a resource-based framework, in this study I examined the relationships among cultural (racial) diversity, business strategy, and firm performance in the banking industry. Racial diversity interacted with business str...

UNLABELLED Publications form the knowledge base of any profession. Patterns in professional publications provide insight into the profession's maturity and global status. To our knowledge, publication productivity in nuclear medicine technology has not been reported. A recent study on publication productivity in radiography and radiation therapy provided interesting insight; however, a sampling...

PURPOSE To associate a monetary value with the productivity of a radiologist assistant (RA) student during the educational process, as a predictor of the potential impact on radiology practices acting as preceptors to RA students. METHODS Eight RA students' productivity was analyzed using preexisting data composed of a list of examinations completed as part of the educational process. The Ins...

BACKGROUND Although health care reforms may improve efficiency at the macro level, less is known regarding their effects on the utilization of health care personnel. Following the 2002 Norwegian hospital reform, we studied the productivity of the physician workforce and the effect of personnel mix on this measure in all nineteen Norwegian hospitals from 2001 to 2013. METHODS We used panel ana...

OBJECTIVES Dyspepsia is defined as persistent or recurrent abdominal pain or discomfort centered in the upper abdomen. Dyspepsia represents up to 8.3% of all primary care physician visits and causes huge economic costs to patients and to the economy as a whole. The aim of this study was to measure the influence of dyspepsia on work productivity of people within the Brazilian workforce. METHOD...

Abstract Passive building strategies in tropical climates are believed to create thermal comfort, thereby enhancing the productivity of workforce office buildings. Very little study, however, exists on impact these passive design workers This study presents results workers, taking samples from buildings Lagos, Nigeria. Copies questionnaires were administered gather required data. Observation gu...

In addition to direct healthcare costs, cancer patients incur productivity costs due morbidity and mortality. This study evaluated associated with TNBC recurrence among surgically-treated patients. Eligible were identified from the OptumHealth Reporting Insights database grouped into non-recurrence cohorts. Patients classified as metastatic or locoregional based on claims observed after surgery...