OBJECTIVE This study explored associations among disease-management partnership functioning, synergy and effectiveness in the delivery of chronic-illness care. DESIGN This study had a cross-sectional design. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS The study sample consists of 218 professionals (out of 393) participating in 22 disease-management partnerships in various regions of the Netherlands. MAIN OU...

Today, ‘partnership’ is one of the most popular words in the ‘development dictionary’. The original meaning, carved out of the ideology of alternative development – partnership as an act of solidarity – has been hijacked by a new rationale: revisionist neo-liberalism. Here, ‘partnership’ acts as a means for efficiency. With the two models operating side-by-side in reality, the line between them...

The expansion of legal rights to same-sex couples is afoot in a number of Western countries. The effects of this roll-out are not only important in their own right but can also provide a window on the institution of marriage and the rights bundled therein. In this paper, using Swedish longitudinal register data covering the period 1994-2007, we study the impact of the extension of rights to sam...

PURPOSE To investigate how a partnership between labor and management works to change the organization and focus of nursing home frontline work, supporting a transition toward person-centered care (PCC) in participating nursing homes. DESIGN AND METHODS Using a participatory research approach, we conducted case studies of 2 nursing homes participating in a partnership between a labor union an...

Most large UK private-sector organisations are listed companies that are subject to intense pressures to enhance shareholder value. The question arises of whether this constrains the ability of UK managers to pursue genuine partnership arrangements with long-term stakeholders, including employees. Empirical evidence is presented in the form of case studies of partnership relations between labou...

We investigate the range of payoffs which are achieved by voluntary and repeatable partnerships under no information flow. In each period, players without a partner are randomly matched and have an option to form a partnership on meeting a new opponent. A partnership forms and continues only by mutual agreement. Actions are observed only by partners and a player starts with a null history once ...

The purpose of this paper is to present an overview of a partnership model used to conduct a research study entitled "Needs of patients with cancer and their family members in New Brunswick Health Region 3 (NBHR3)" (Tamlyn-Leaman, Creelman, & Fisher, 1997). This partial replication study carried out by the three authors between 1995 and 1997 was a needs assessment, adapted with permission from ...

From an economic perspective, marriage and long-term partnership can be seen as a risk-pooling device. This informal insurance contract is, however, not fully enforceable. Each partner is free to leave when his or her support needed in case of adverse life event. An health shock prominent example for such events. Since relationship breakdown itself extremely stressful experience, may backfire a...

Community-academic partnerships in the training of doctors offer unique learning opportunities of great importance. Such partnerships can induce a paradigm shift such that physicians view community as a teaching resource and partner rather than as a passive recipient of services or solely as a placement site. The authors describe a model of a community-academic partnership in New York City, beg...

Several partners jointly own an asset that may be traded among them. Each partner has a valuation for the asset; the valuations are known privately and drawn independently from a common probability distribution. We characterize the set of all incentive-compatible and interim-individually-rational trading mechanisms, and give a simple necessary and sufficient condition for such mechanisms to dis...