Project management that solely focuses on the management of time, cost and quality cannot comprehensively ensure the satisfactory meeting of a customer’s needs. Project management performance with regard to this issue can be improved by enhancing project management’s ability to meet a customer’s needs. This paper introduces lean project management to address this concern. Lean project managemen...

BACKGROUND Complementary therapies (CTs) are increasingly utilized by cancer patients. Nonetheless, patients report insufficient support from health care practitioners (HCPs) and there is a general lack of patient-practitioner communication about CT use. Best care practices suggest that HCPs should address the needs of patients, including CT use. This study examined current practices of patient...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the perceptions of families of children with developmental disabilities regarding their primary care physicians and to determine if differences exist for different conditions. METHODS Mailed survey to families of children who had autism, physical disabilities (cerebral palsy or spina bifida) and mental retardation that included the Multidimensional Assessment of Parental...

Pain is a major distractor and strongly challenges, not only the patient, but also the treating practitioner to understand what psychological effects are generated. People cope differently with pain especially chronic pain. Enquiry into the patient's personality-based psychological needs at this time of stress and ill health will often give clues as to how they need to change their approach if ...

Research has now demonstrated that students can learn nature of science concepts variously through student-led investigations, contemporary cases, and historical cases. Here we articulate more precisely the merits, deficits, and context of each approach and begin to profile how to integrate them as complementary methods. Emphasis now needs to shift to the needs of practicing teachers and the de...

Purpose Personalized medicine in the days of genetic research is seen as molecular biologic specification in individuals, not as individualized care oriented to patients needs in the sense of person-centered medicine. Yet the question can be raised whether this focus can ameliorate health care needs in view of the invested resources. Studies suggest that patients often miss authentically patien...

BACKGROUND Adverse drug events are a major safety issue in ambulatory care. Improving medication self-management could reduce these adverse events. Researchers have developed medication applications for tethered personal health records (PHRs), but little has been reported about medication applications for interoperable PHRs. OBJECTIVE Our objective was to develop two complementary personal he...

In order to secure collaborative business processes, we present a methodological approach that early integrates security and risk management throughout the design process of service-oriented architectures. We develop our methodology based on two complementary axes: the first being the business needs while the second, is ensuring a consistent security between partners at the runtime. The informa...