AIM To identify the current roles of eye and health care workers in eye care delivery and investigate their potential roles in screening and detection for management of diabetic retinopathy (DR) through task sharing. METHODS Purposive sampling of 24 participants including health administrators, members from non-government organizations and all available eye care workers in Takeo province were...

Significant resources around the world have been invested in neuroimaging studies of brain function and disease. Easier access to this large body of work should have profound impact on research in cognitive neuroscience and psychiatry, leading to advances in the diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric and neurological disease. A trend toward increased sharing of neuroimaging data has emerged in ...

We develop a differentiated productivity model of knowledge sharing in organizations that proposes that different types of knowledge have different benefits for task units. In a study of 182 sales teams in a management consulting company, we find that sharing codified knowledge in the form of electronic documents saved time during the task but did not improve work quality or signal competence t...

this article reports on the findings of a study that investigated the impact of manipulating task performance conditions on listening task performance by learners of english as a foreign language (efl). the study was designed to explore the effects of changing complexity dimensions on listening task performance and to achieve two aims: to see how listening comprehension task performance was aff...

Each emergency management presents itself with a unique set of characteristics that are hard to determine a priori. Thus emergency management tasks are inherently uncertain, requiring knowledge sharing and quick decision making that involves coordination across different levels and collaborators. While there has been an increasing interest among both researchers and practitioners in utilizing k...

Each disaster presents itself with a unique set of characteristics that are hard to determine a priori. Using combinations of qualitative and quantitative methods, we develop the dimensions and their corresponding measures of the dynamic characteristics of disaster management tasks and test the relationships between the various dimensions of task uncertainty and knowledge sharing purposes. We c...

BACKGROUND Task sharing is an important strategy for increasing access to modern, effective contraception for women and reducing unmet need for family planning. OBJECTIVE The objective was to identify evidence for the safety, efficacy or acceptability of task sharing tubal sterilization to midlevel providers. SEARCH STRATEGY We searched PubMed, Cochrane and Popline for articles in all langu...