OBJECTIVE This study of Department of Defense (DoD) civilian employees Workers' Compensation (WC) claims for chargeback year 2000 through 2012 aimed to analyze the frequency, rates, and costs of WC claims representing 5% of the DoD annual personnel budget. METHODS A multiyear cross-sectional study of WC claims data identified the top five most frequent causes, natures, and anatomical sites; c...

BACKGROUND The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) offers an innovative method of delivering primary care. However, the necessary staffing infrastructure is not well established. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the roles of personnel within a PCMH and to propose necessary staffing ratios and associated incremental costs to implement this model of care. METHODS We sampled primary care clinical pract...

Although Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS) have been addressed in terms of their implementation and availability (Frantzreb, 1986; Magnus & Thomesen, 1986 ), purpose (Johnson, Moorhead, & Griffin, 1983; Nardoni, 1985), and current status (DeSanctis, 1986; Magnus & Grossman, 1985; Moore & Clavadetscher, 1985) future directions for such systems have for the most part been ignored. HRIS ar...

British Columbia and Manitoba have the most developed and comprehensive publicly financed long-term care (LTC) programs in North America. For U.S. policymakers, these programs are large-scale natural experiments with public LTC insurance. During the 1980s, both provinces successfully contained the growth of public expenditures on nursing homes, and one province successfully contained the growth...

Information systems (IS) projects are often delivered late, over budget, and not always to required specifications. This is an ongoing problem that has eluded researchers and practitioners for decades, but to overcome these problems better ways to manage the success of project development and implementation are needed. We investigate the use of incentives in IS projects during development and i...

Employee theft is one of the major factors of retail shrinkage despite many costly technological and widespread security measures. Employee theft cannot be ignored as it causes significant losses to employers. This study investigates the workplace factors that affect the employee retail theft behaviour. Although identifying theft is difficult, this study will help employers to further understan...

state compensation to crime victims means paying money by the governmental institutions to victims or his/her families, when restitution by the offender and other financial sources is accessible. in the legal system of england, law of criminal damages includes all aspects of state compensation such as: conditions of eligibility related to victims, crimes, damages, perpetrators as well as proced...

one of the important subjects with regard to general average is the demand for compensation. the substantial question is whether the basis for the permissibility of demand for compensation on the part of the damage sufferer is the incur of peril during a voyage or not? according to the legal systems under the present study (england, france, iran and york-antwerp rules), this research reveals th...