Judging by reports in medical magazines and journals, 'early discharge schemes', better termed 'post acute care', are not popular with doctors. However, government policy encourages earlier discharge from hospital, so that the choice facing clinicians is to discharge patients early with support, or early without support, or deal with the consequences of length of stay overruns. Fortunately, gov...

narrative interpretations are composed of both authentic traditions and fictitious ones. so, first of all we should separate faked narrations from authentic ones.in addition, not all the authentic hadith are considered as exegesis of qur'an. it is necessary to categorize them. so, every narration has to be in a special category and is harmonized with other narrations in the same category a...

the present article deals with the position and features of imam ali´s instructions to malik al- ashtar in islamic sources. it studies the sources of imam ali´s instructions to malik including sunni and shiite ones, their position in jurisprudential and exegetical sources, and their popularity in different parts of the muslim world. furthermore, taking the chain of transmission of these instruc...

While brilliance and originality surely top the list of qualities shared by Brandom and Heidegger, another commonality is a tendency to treat their predecessors as partial and sometimes confused versions of themselves. Heidegger, therefore, could hardly be indignant on principle if Brandom finds a fair bit of Making it Explicit in the first division of Being and Time. Nevertheless, some details...

We propose a “common-agency” model for explaining inefficient contracting in the U.S. healthcare system. In our setting, common-agency problems arise when multiple payers seek to motivate a shared provider to invest in improved care coordination. Our approach differs from other common-agency models in that we analyze “sticking points,” that is, equilibria in which payers coordinate around Paret...