Community-based (CB) surgical training programs have traditionally been felt to offer an earlier operative experience than university-based (UB), with CB residents reporting higher levels of confidence operate independently upon completion residency. Greater autonomy during may be one potential contributor independently, but this has not yet evaluated. The purpose study was compare resident rat...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the status of current mobile TV phone usage and discuss the issues for strategic implications for the communications and mobile TV industry. Design/methodology/approach – Real tracking data, collected from server’s logs during 2006 and 2007 from South Korean satellite DMB providers, were analyzed according to users’ age group, peak viewing time ...

establishment of hospital accreditation programs is increasingly growing across numerous developing nations. such initiatives aim to improve quality of care. however, such establishments, mainly incentivized by successful and famous accreditation plans in developed countries, usually suffer from lack of necessary arrangements which, in turn, result in undesired consequences. indeed, the first p...

vital decisions made at the strategic level in an organization are not only intricate but also costly to alter. it is therefore important to find a comprehensive approach to deal with such a possibility. one of the major problems of a common balanced scorecard (bsc)-based model in strategic management is lack of a ranking system for strategic objectives in order to enable prioritization of the ...

Vouchers can be a highly effective tool to increase access to and use of family planning and reproductive health services, especially for special populations including the poor, youth, and postpartum women. Voucher programs need to include social and behavior change communication with clients and quality assurance for providers, whether in the private or public sector. In the longer term, vouch...