Our aging population has exacerbated strong and divergent trends between health human resource supply and demand. One way to mitigate future inequities is through the adoption of health information technology (HIT). Our previous research showed a number of risks and mitigating factors which affected HIT implementation success. We confirmed these findings through semistructured interviews with n...

The focus of this essay is to examine the market for copyrighted works with a particular emphasis on the sound recording market. This market is currently in a state of flux, some would say disarray, due to the ability of the Internet to lower transmission costs for both authorized and unauthorized copies, with the latter being, at this time, far more prevalent. In this essay we discuss the inte...

Employment or Leadership: None declared. Consultant or Advisory Role: A.S. Jaffe, Beckman Coulter, Critical Diagnostics, Inverness Medical, Radiometer, Pfizer, and Amgen. Stock Ownership: None declared. Honoraria: A.S. Jaffe, Roche and Abbott Laboratories. Research Funding: A.K. Saenger, Roche Diagnostics; G.G. Klee, Beckman Coulter; A.S. Jaffe, Beckman Coulter. Expert Testimony: None declared....

BACKGROUND The feasibility of clinical trials depends, among other factors, on the number of eligible patients, the recruitment process, and the readiness of patients to participate in research. Seeking patients' views about their experience in research projects may allow investigators to develop more effective recruitment and retention strategies. METHODS A total of 100 patients consecutivel...

A fundamental principle of economics with which Adam Smith begins The Wealth of Nations is the division of labor. Some firms, however, have been pursuing a practice called job rotation, which assigns each worker not to a single and specific task but to a set of several tasks among which he or she rotates with some frequency. We examine the practice of job rotation as a serious alternative to sp...

This study evaluated the psychometric equivalency of Web-based research. The Sexual Boredom Scale was presented via the World-Wide Web along with five additional scales used to validate it. A subset of 533 participants that matched a previously published sample (Watt & Ewing, 1996) on age, gender, and race was identified. An 8 x 8 correlation matrix from the matched Internet sample was compared...

An error crept into Des Spence’s column about private health cover for BMA staff (BMJ 2013;347:f5199, doi:10.1136/bmj. f5199). The BMA’smedia office told Spence during his research for the article, “Private medical insurance is only offered to a very small number of the BMA’s most senior members of staff—directors in the senior managers group—as part of their remuneration package.” However, Spe...

An effective formulation of organizational performance is vital in order to understand the commitment of human resource practices and implementation of company‟s policy on innovation. Therefore, the need to use human resources intensively in any company in its innovation system and process with a tailored remuneration for the „retain‟ and „retrain‟ approach which is strongly linked to the innov...