Clinical Pathways: An Overview The term clinical pathway refers to a multidisciplinary process of mutual decision-making that results in the organized care of a well-defined group of patients during a well-defined period of time.[1, 2] Clinical pathways were first introduced in the 1980’s when escalating medical costs pressured physicians to decrease resource utilization without jeopardizing pa...

Autonomy is usually considered as a main principle in making decisions about individuals' health. Children and particularly adolescents have the capacity to take part in medical decision-making to some extent. For the most part the parent-doctor-child/adolescent triangle sides are essentially in agreement, but this may not be true in some cases, causing physicians to face problems attempting to...

Ranking systems are applied in many ways nowadays and have become a commodity to use when it comes to making decisions. Education is one of the most important parts of human life. Choosing a right place is crucial from many perspectives: quality of life, knowledge gained, post-graduation prospects. Making a right choice what institution to attend is based on many factors and is hard to make in ...

Widely hailed as the next generation auto-identification technology, RFID has captured the imaginations of organizations across different industry sectors. Accordingly, organizational managers are faced with the important but difficult task of evaluating RFID in the context of their organization and deciding upon its adoption. This research uses the real options perspective to understand how ma...

Conceptual modelling for information systems design is to a large extent about describing and prescribing the actions and interactions of agents in organizations. Thus, rules, regulations, organizational roles and other institutional aspects become key notions for conceptual modelling. While modellers may intuitively take these notions into account when creating conceptual models, it would be v...

For several years we have had frequent small outbreaks of diphtheria. In *924, there were fifteen apparently separate outbreaks with a total of twenty eases, and in the early part of 1925, there were at different times six patients <ind eleven members of the staff down with mild attacks of the same thing. Of the whole thirty-seven cases, only two were serious, but it was obvious that at any tim...

This article explores policy applications of ‘new institutional economics’ theory in relation to markets and economic development. It argues for application of an analytical framework which instead of looking at institutions primarily in terms of their contributions to making competitive markets work better, sees such markets as one form of institution fulfilling exchange and co-ordination func...

Academic institutions are now drawing attention in finding methods for making effective learning process, for identifying learner’s achievements and weakness, for tracing academic progress and also for predicting future performance. People’s increased expectation for accountability and transparency makes it necessary to implement big data analytics in the educational institution. But not all th...

This Practice Bulletin was developed by the ACOG Committee on Practice Bulletins— Gynecology with the assistance of Jeanne Sheffield, MD. The information is designed to aid practitioners in making decisions about appropriate obstetric and gynecologic care. These guidelines should not be construed as dictating an exclusive course of treatment or procedure. Variations in practice may be warranted...