OBJECTIVE To describe innovative programs within the Kaiser Permanente Pharmacy Department in the Colorado Region. SETTING One of eight regions of the nation's largest nonprofit health maintenance organization. PRACTICE DESCRIPTION The pharmacy department comprises two services, Clinical Pharmacy Services and Pharmacy Operations/Support Services, which are integrated to provide comprehensiv...

Mobile Agents are soft wares migrating from one node to another to fulfill the task of its owner. Mobility introduces two major challenges in front of mobile agent namely reliability and security. As the agent moves from one node to another the goal to complete its task safely is difficult to achieve. Mobile agents are no longer a theoretical concept, much architecture for their realizations ha...

Although cough medicine abuse is a growing problem in many places, there is no study examining the views of young substance abusers toward cough medicine. The objective of this study was to examine personal constructions of cough medicine abusers via the repertory grid tests (N = 11). Several observations are highlighted from the study. First, personal constructions of cough medicine were mixed...

Millions of courses of antibiotics are prescribed for children with acute cough illness each year, despite evidence from randomized, placebo-controlled trials that such treatment is not effective. Evidence that children with cough for <10 days should not be treated with antimicrobial agents is presented. Older children with prolonged cough or those with underlying lung disease may benefit from ...

BACKGROUND Public-private partnerships are felt to be necessary for tuberculosis (TB) control in some developing countries. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the potential of a collaboration between the National TB Programme (NTP) and private pharmacies in Bolivia, the country with the highest TB incidence in Latin America. METHODS We contacted the local Pharmacists' Association in the city of Cochaba...

in-service education programs have provided the professional development level of companies' employers, in the high quality form. the applying of in-service education programs has been a key component of professional development process for staff agro-industry company. the study is utilized experimental solomon four group designs to determine the impact of in-service education programs on agro-...

the position of financial organization would be increasingly decisive in the next decade in view of the frightening competition. with the increasing number of businesses and growing competitions today, each organization wants to be the customer’s first choice and try to satisfy them for getting loyalty for their future endurance in the market.  however, it is open to ask whether the organizatio...