infections Widad Al-Nakib, FRCPath, FIDSA; Sahar Essa, BSc, MSc, PhD; Haya Altawalah, BSc, MBBS, FRCPath; Abdullah Owayed; Mousa Khadadah; Nasser Behbehani; Microbiology Department Kuwait University, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait; Virology Unit, Ministry of Health, Mubarak Hospital, Kuwait; Paediatrics, Kuwait University, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait; Medicine, Kuwait University, Faculty of Medici...

Effective e-government presupposes proper application of the information and communications technology (icT) as well as an effective management system in order to improve the economics of the public sector. The budget with which the public sector organizations start their new strategic planning cycle should be partially used to enable their organizational efficiency. This is done through the im...

PURPOSE To compare single-agent gemtuzumab ozogamicin (GO) with best supportive care (BSC) including hydroxyurea as first-line therapy in older patients with acute myeloid leukemia unsuitable for intensive chemotherapy. PATIENTS AND METHODS In this trial, patients at least 61 years old were centrally randomized (1:1) to receive either a single induction course of GO (6 mg/m(2) on day 1 and 3 ...

Activity-Based Costing (ABC) is a method of measuring the cost and performance of activities and cost objects. It helps identify problems or ways to take advantage of opportunities by providing financial and nonfinancial information about activities and cost objects. Balanced Scorecard (BSC) has been accepted by the business world, worldwide, as a very promising tool for the performance measure...

328. Clinical Impact of Multidrug-Resistant Organisms (MDRO) causing Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs) in 10 Colombian cities Gabriel Motoa, MD; Cristhian Hernandez, Bsc; Victor M Blanco, MD; Juan S. Muñoz, MD; Adriana Correa, MSc; Elsa De La Cadena, Bsc; Maria V. Villegas, MD, MSc; Colombian Nosocomial Resistance Study Group; Centro Internacional De Entrenamiento e Investigaciones Médica...

In outsourcing, management seeks to achieve costs savings, operational efficiency, customer satisfaction, and/or company growth. We integrate the ANP with the perspectives in Balanced Scorecard (BSC) for IT outsourcing decision making. The proposed BSC-ANP model helps evaluate the impact of decision on firm performance and confirms the existence of indicator interactions.

In today’s business environment, competitive advantage is a crucial issue for companies. The Balanced Scorecard (BSC) has become prominent within recognized performance appraisal methods. Since the BSC transforms strategies to actions, it embraces not only financial indicators but also non-financial indicators. Existing containing four perspectives are available banks. Although effective tool c...

BACKGROUND In today's dynamic health-care system, organizations such as hospitals are required to improve their performance for multiple stakeholders and deliver an integrated care that means to work effectively, be innovative and organize efficiently. Achieved goals and levels of quality can be successfully measured by a multidimensional approach like Balanced Scorecard (BSC). The aim of the s...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the cost effectiveness of onabotulinumtoxinA (BOTOX(®), 200 units [200 U]) for the management of urinary incontinence (UI) in adults with neurogenic detrusor overactivity (NDO) due to subcervical spinal cord injury or multiple sclerosis that is not adequately managed with anticholinergic drugs (ACHDs). PERSPECTIVE UK National Health Service (NHS) perspective. METHODS ...

We previously demonstrated that bovine subcutaneous preadipocytes promote adipogenic gene expression in muscle satellite cells in a co-culture system. Herein we hypothesize that saturated fatty acids would promote adipogenic/lipogenic gene expression, whereas mono- and polyunsaturated fatty acids would have the opposite effect. Bovine semimembranosus satellite cells (BSC) and intramuscular prea...