Introduction: Evaluation of hospital readmissions after total knee arthroplasty (TKA) may provide an opportunity for improved patient safety and cost reduction. Despite the established effectiveness of TKA for treatment of arthritis, it is a very costly procedure. Thus, it is of great interest to find ways of reducing costs while ensuring that patient safety and outcomes are not compromised. Th...

banking and financial services are important parts of the service industry. quality of service in the banking industry has a close relationship with customer satisfaction service system. banks could create competitive advantage by increasing customer satisfaction and reduce costs in today's competitive environment. this paper presents a decision-making model to obtain optimum tasks assigne...

This research memorandum summarizes the analyses conducted for the Active/Reserve Force Mix Study. The availability of personnel to man missions being transferred to the Reserve forces is studied. In particular, this paper examines which homeports will be most able to support the Naval Reserve Force, what determines whether Navy veterans will affiliate with the Selected Reserves, and what the s...

This research memorandum summarizes the analyses conducted for the Active/Reserve Force Mix Study. The availability of personnel to man missions being transferred to the Reserve forces is studied. In particular, this paper examines which homeports will be most able to support the Naval Reserve Force, what determines whether Navy veterans will affiliate with the Selected Reserves, and what the s...

BACKGROUND In February 2004, students from a college in Iowa, with a high proportion of nonmedical exemptions to vaccination, traveled to India; one fourth of the students contracted measles while there. One exposed, susceptible student returned home during his infectious period, necessitating 2 months of containment efforts in Iowa. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to measure the di...

For most software companies, the production of reliable software within the planned time schedule is of paramount importance. Many times, inadequate resource allocation can lead to high costs and low quality in software products. Hence, it is critical to put in place well-planned processes for personnel assignment that take into consideration the skill sets of the personnel with the objective o...

BACKGROUND Due to consuming about 50%-80% of health resources, hospitals are the greatest and costly operational units in Iranian Health system. so allocation of resources specially human and space resources as the most expensive ones is really important for further controlling of costs, analysis of costs and making suitable policies for increasing the profitability and allocation of resources ...

BACKGROUND We determined direct medical costs, overhead costs, societal costs, and personnel requirements for the provision of antiretroviral therapy (ART) to patients with AIDS in Haiti. METHODS We examined data from 218 treatment-naïve adults who were consecutively initiated on ART at the GHESKIO Center in Port-au-Prince, Haiti between December 23, 2003 and May 20, 2004 and calculated costs...

To control the overbreaking of an underground mining development gallery, controlled blasting technique was proposed and as a result it possible to reduce costs improve physical stability periphery opening, achieving greater safety for personnel equipment. With support geomechanical studies, rock quality advancing front determined, serving design drilling mesh choice distribution explosives in ...