job satisfaction of nurses working in hospitals in zahedan purgaz a , nastiezaie n , hezare mogadam m received: 15 april, 2010 accepted: 27july, 2010 abstract background & aims: one of the most important elements of any organization especially health organizations is human resources. job satisfaction leads to being interested or disinterested. the present study aimed to determine the job satisf...

OBJECTIVE To analyze variability in urologists' Medicare utilization and payment and estimate potential cost savings of standardized service utilization using information from the recently released Medicare Provider Utilization and Payment Data: Physician and Other Supplier Public Use File (PUF) and to highlight potential limitations of PUF analysis. MATERIALS AND METHODS The Centers for Medi...

This study aims to address a number of the issues which are pertinent to practitioners trying to use published models in day to day risk assessment. Firstly we look at an approach to handling missing data, then at the predictivity of payment behaviour information, which has become available on credit reports in the UK in recent years but has not so far been considered by researchers. Finally we...

As part of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Medicare hospitals have part of their Medicare reimbursements withheld and then redistributed to hospitals based on quality performance. The Hospital Value Based Purchasing payment reimbursement plan relies partly on ordinal rankings of hospitals to determine how money is redistributed. We analyze the quality metric distributions u...

b s t r a c t Although debit/cash cards based on smart card technology promised to bring forth the end of loose change, very few managed to gain critical mass or come close to totally eliminating coins including those supported by major credit card operators (e.g., Visa Cash and Mondex). In this paper, we discuss a specific system – Octopus – which not only gained momentum among the passenger t...

Legal notice Neither the European Commission nor any person acting on behalf of the Commission is responsible for the use which might be made of the following information. Abstract The first Background paper of the Electronic Payment Systems Observatory (ePSO) identifies the strategic and technical issues that will be discussed in the ePSO Forum – an online discussion group consisting of paymen...

today, the internet is the significant tool of online shopping in all around the world. online transaction systems make shopper possible to make payment for services or products utilizing the internet. the current paper purpose is to focus on the elements that can affect online repurchase intentions. in the current paper we utilized survey questionnaire to gather 102 in malaysia from those that...