Community hospitals in rural and isolated areas have had little access to the Internet. In 1992, the National Library of Medicine funded a pilot project to be conducted by the University of Washington and seven community hospitals in the northwestern United States. The goals of the project were to connect the hospitals to the Internet and study the uses made of this resource. A number of admini...

On the first day a paper will be given by Mr. H. J. Waring, F.R.C.S., Vice-Chancellor of London University (Senior Surgeon, St. Bartholomew's Hospital) on "Voluntary Hospitals and Paying Patients." In the afternoon, Mr. J. E. Stone, F.S.A.A. (Accountant to St. Thomas's Hospital), will read a paper on " Accountancy in Relation to Hospital Administration." In the evening the Annual Dinner will be...

J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2008;15:554–558. DOI 10.1197/jamia.M2676.

R policies are common in many sectors of retail distribution. Padmanabhan and Png (1997) showed that with demand uncertainty, a returns policy could improve manufacturer profitability under certain conditions. Wang (2004) showed that returns policies do not change manufacturer profitability when demand is certain and retailing is competitive. We show that returns policies do increase manufactur...

Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Clinical Pathology, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; Blood Center of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI; Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada; Canadian Blood Services, Hamilton, ON, Canada; National Health Service Blood and Transplant/Oxford University ...

of their medical efficiency and soundness of administration, the voluntary hospitals in this country had been brought to the brink of ruin by circumstances quite beyond their own control. Beds had been closed, important branches of healing discontinued, and many schemes of development abandoned. By a great and exceptional effort of public benevolence made now, the vitality of this cherished nat...

E. Van Cutsem1, A. Cervantes2, B. Nordlinger3 & D. Arnold4, on behalf of the ESMO Guidelines Working Group* Digestive Oncology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, INCLIVA, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain; Department of General Surgery and Surgical Oncology, Hôpital Ambroise Paré, Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, Fr...

Recognition of career motivators and understanding of managers and employees in prioritizing them, in order to plan incentives for this understanding, can play an important role in increasing productivity and creating harmony between the goals of the organization and staff. This study was done to survey the importance of career motivating factors from perspective of employees and managers in ed...

Erratum After publication of the original article [1], it came to the authors’ attention that the Acknowledgements section was not completed correctly. Instead of “Not applicable”, the Acknowledgements of the article should have been as follows. Acknowledgements We would like to thank all of the following contributors for their invaluable expertise: Neill Calvert for performing and writing-up t...

service (Dr. Menzies went on) may prove to be a big factor in determining the ultimate relationships of the Voluntary Hospitals and the municipal authorities. "We all know the recommendations of the Maclean Committee with regard to Poor Law Infirmaries which Represent the great bulk of the institutional provision for the sick in this country. In the past they have gained a bad reputation in the...