BACKGROUND The participation of pharmacists on cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) teams has been associated with improvements in patient outcomes secondary to lower rates of adverse drug events and higher rates of compliance with guidelines for advanced cardiac life support (ACLS). The degree to which Canadian pharmacists participate on CPR teams and the services they provide have not previous...

Leaders play crucial roles in their enterprises. Most modern organizations today, such as corporations and government departments, have no leaders. About 80% of all top structures, are run by inertia leaderless organizations. These pretense-pseudo structures filled roles, CEO, Department Head/Secretary, EVP, VP, others, but this non-accountable system mostly harms than benefits the organization...

Proponents ofschool restructuring often promote the purported benefits ofprofessionalforms of management that c.allfor staff cooperation and collegiality, teachers'participation in school decision making, and supportive leadership byschoolprincipals. A theoreticalperspective on organizations known as contingency theory refers to such management patterns as "organic management." This study exami...

Across the K-16 system of primary, secondary, and post-secondary education, the need for interdisciplinary resources is widespread. Resources are dispersed, however, across disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and professional forums, as well as the “gray” or “fugitive” literature of conference papers, teaching materials, program reports, working papers, and other unpublished work. We enlarge the c...

Cloud computing (CC) has come a long way from when the term was first coined in the early 2000’s to where it is now. Its increasing maturity, the benefits that come with it and the relative advantage it has over traditional in-house systems has made it an attractive proposition for organizations. However, it being a relatively new phenomenon coupled with its perceived risks and challenges disco...

This paper investigates how hospital affiliation in a multi-hospital system (contract managed, owned, sponsored), the number of system hospitals, HMO and PPO contracts, and other factors, impacts hospital cost efficiency. Using a 1996-1999 panel of 248 hospitals, results show that for urban hospitals, increasing the number of hospitals in the system, system ownership and contract management/spo...

Patient registries are poorly interoperable and as a result data exchange or aggregation across organizations, regions and countries for secondary purposes (i.e. research and public health) is difficult to perform. PARENT Joint Action aims to provide EU Member States with a set of guidelines, recommendations and tools to support setting-up, management and governance of interoperable patient reg...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present research findings on the relation between internal/external sources of innovation and ICT as a supporter/enabler of FM organizations as well as on the strategic orientation towards open innovation of FM organizations. Design/methodology/approach – This study uses a qualitative research approach. The data collection includes qualitative semi-stru...