THIS FIRST CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINE (CPG) was produced through a collaboration of the SOMA Prolonged Field Care Working Group (PFCWG) and the Joint Trauma System (JTS) at the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research (USAISR) in San Antonio. Of note, this effort is the result from requests for information and guidance through the PFC website (PFCare.org) and from the Joint Special Operations ...

Succeeding under Medicare's enterprise Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Model will require collaboration among caregivers and financial arrangements to align incentives Priorities for most organization's transition to becoming a value-based hospitals will be care redesign, supply-purchasing strategy, and post-acute care provider partnering. Pursuing value for your joint replacement prog...

Introduction Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg , located in close geographic proximity of each other, have over a longer period of time developed collaboration in many areas and in many ways, which is, amongst other things, reflected by joint departments and research centers as well as joint scientific publishing. In this study special attention is devoted to patter...

BACKGROUND Confidential product listing agreements (PLAs) negotiated between pharmaceutical manufacturers and individual health care payers may contribute to unwanted price disparities, high administrative costs, and unequal bargaining power within and across jurisdictions. In the context of Canada's decentralized health system, we aimed to document provincial policy makers' perceptions about c...

In settings where R&D specialists work together on a technical project without physically being together, boundary objects are often used to facilitate understanding and collaboration (Carlile, 2002; Star & Griesemer, 1989). From a practice perspective, boundary objects refer to artifacts that are understood within their local setting, yet have enough common ground to facilitate the shared prac...

The move toward adoption and implementation of electronic health records (EHR) provides an opportunity in the United States to use electronic clinical data (ECD) to better understand patient outcomes and to improve the quality and efficiency of medical care. Within the field of orthopedics, national joint replacement registries have been shown in other countries to improve clinical decision-mak...