BACKGROUND The Jefferson Scale of Attitudes Toward Physician-Nurse Collaboration (JSATPNC) has been used to measure attitudes regarding nurse-physician collaboration. However, psychometric evaluation is lacking for the nurse practitioner (NP) population. PURPOSE This study details a confirmatory approach in testing the factor analytic structure of the JSATPNC against previously reported struc...

1 Comité Institucional de Ética en Investigación, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Neoplásicas. Lima, Perú. 2 Departamento de Oncología Médica, Departamento de Investigación, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Neoplásicas. Lima, Perú. 3 Liga Peruana de Lucha contra el Cáncer. Lima, Perú. 4 Radioncología, AUNA. Lima, Perú. a Químico farmacéutico; b Médico oncólogo clínico, magíster en Genética...

797 Pauline King, APRN, BC, is a psychosocial clinical nurse specialist and director of children’s programming in the Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute at Ohio State University in Columbus. As the recipient of the 2003 ONS Foundation Mara Mogensen Flaherty Memorial Lectureship, King presented this article at the ONS 28th Annual Congress in Denver, CO. King...

Using the Johansen cointegration technique, we find empirical evidence of long run comovements between five national stock market indexes and measures of aggregate real activity including the real oil price, real consumption, real money, and real output. Real returns on these indexes are typically related to transitory deviations from the long run relationship and to changes in the macroeconomi...

[T]he income and happiness relationship is . . . curvilinear . . . with a decreasing marginal utility for higher levels of income . . . . (Diener, Sandvik, Seidlitz, and Diener, 1993, 204; cf. also Diener and Biswas-Diener, 2002, 119) [W]e not only see a clear positive relationship [between happiness and GNP per capita], but also a curvilinear pattern; which suggest that wealth is subject to a ...

This article reports the findings of a study developed to compare health care costs in the United States with those of eight other industrially advanced countries over the period 1960-76. All of the countries studied were found to share with the United States the problem of increased health care spending that has outpaced inflation in other sectors of the economy and continues to consume a grow...

This article reports the findings of a study developed to compare health care costs in the United States with those of eight other industrially advanced countries over the period 1960-76. All of the countries studied were found to share with the United States the problem of increased health care spending that has outpaced inflation in other sectors of the economy and continues to consume a grow...

A number of analysts believe that these financial developments have altered significantly the relationship between Ml growth and the gr’owth of GNP. rendering the narrow monetaiy aggregate less usefi.rl as an intermediate target for monetary policy.’ Others have objected on broader grounds, arguing that these innovations illuminate the problem of simply adding up various financial assets curren...

The economic assumption that a present value relation holds between consumption and income and between stock prices and dividends, or the statistical assumption that the consumption/ income ratio and the dividend/price ratio are stationary imply that the permanent or random walk component in each series of a pair must be the same as the permanent component in the other series of a pair. Either ...