AN RCN survey has uncovered further evidence of a serious shortage of registered nurses in the NILS.

Threatens Patient Care I n what members of the nuclear medicine community referred to as a ‘‘devastating’’ and ‘‘catastrophic’’ series of events, the Canadian supplier of more than 50% of the world’s marketed radioisotopes shut down its reactor in late November. The result was an immediate shortage of 99mTc generators that forced a scramble for alternative suppliers and drastic reductions in th...

AIMS In this paper we outline and evaluate competing explanations for a heroin shortage that occurred in Australia during 2001 with an abrupt onset at the beginning of 2001. METHODS We evaluated each of the explanations offered for the shortage against evidence from a variety of sources: government reports, police and drug law enforcement documents and briefings, key informant (KI) interviews...

This paper analyzes the role of seller-induced shortage as a signal of quality for a monopoly firm. Unlike dissipative advertising, the cost of inducing shortage is different for different quality types. It is shown that under certain conditions, a high-quality monopoly firm (of a new indivisible product) that signals quality by properly setting price and inducing shortage makes more profit tha...

Lung transplantation (LTx) has undergone dramatic development throughout the last years. Today it has become standard treatment of end stage respiratory failure. Based on recent data from the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT), almost 4000 procedures are performed worldwide on a yearly basis. However, despite the continuing increase in numbers, there remains a signi...

INTRODUCTION General surgery is facing a serious crisis. There has been a significant decline in the number of applicants for registrar posts and an inability to attract and retain general surgical specialists in the state sector. The Association of Surgeons of South Africa (ASSA) undertook this study to determine the extent and cause of the problem. METHODS The study involved a combination o...

In 2003, the Colorado Permanente Medical Group (CPMG), a 780-member, multispecialty physician group that provides ambulatory and hospital care principally in metropolitan Denver and Boulder, embarked upon a multifaceted program to leverage physician leadership to address the nursing shortage. Designated as the "Preferred Clinical Partner Program" (the PCP Program), CPMG sought to participate in...

The development of new hardware, end user-software and the globalization of the telecommunications industry has generated an acute demand and corresponding shortage for trained IT (information technology) professionals. The IT manpower shortage has become particularly crucial for U.S. domestic and U.S. multinational organizations where staffing shortfalls may generate a significant impact upon ...