BACKGROUND No published curricula in the area of medical business ethics exist. This is surprising given that physicians wrestle daily with business decisions and that professional associations, the Institute of Medicine, Health and Human Services, Congress, and industry have issued related guidelines over the past 5 years. To fill this gap, the authors aimed (1) to identify the full range of m...

Delivery of the Delphi online Each round of the Delphi was delivered online using a bespoke system that managed participation invitations , reminders, data collection and reporting. Integration of clinical and patient views Results of the separate Delphi surveys for each stakeholder group will be shared with all participants with an opportunity to re-score. Clinicians, adults, patients and thei...

In the data accumulated by DELPHI during November 1995 LEP run at 130 GeV { 140 GeV, events with four fermions in the nal state have been selected. Final states l + l ? q q, q q, l + l ? and l + l ? l + l ? have been analyzed. Three events were found in agreement with expectations from Standard Model four-fermion processes of 2.3 0.14 events and two-fermion background of 0.76 0.15 events.

A proposal for a possible upgrade around the FCA (the FCA*) based on Thin Gap Gas Chambers has been presented to DELPHI. In this note the detailed design of the FCA* layout is described.

The mix that is suitable to target the specific learning needs and is likely to be accepted by SMEs has yet to be clarified. Recommendations for a good mix of blended learning in SMEs will be developed using a Delphi study design, implemented as a so-called e-Delphi. The sample will be SMEs from Germany and Ireland, international providers of e-learning, blended learning and lifelong learning a...

Here we report a web server, the DelPhi web server, which utilizes DelPhi program to calculate electrostatic energies and the corresponding electrostatic potential and ionic distributions, and dielectric map. The server provides extra services to fix structural defects, as missing atoms in the structural file and allows for generation of missing hydrogen atoms. The hydrogen placement and the co...

Executive Summary The Delphi method is an attractive method for graduate students completing masters and PhD level research. It is a flexible research technique that has been successfully used in our program at the University of Calgary to explore new concepts within and outside of the information systems body of knowledge. The Delphi method is an iterative process to collect and distill the an...

Background A model of quality management called Strategic Collaborative Quality Management (SCQM) model was developed based on the quality management literature review, the findings of a survey on quality management assessment in healthcare organisations, semi-structured interviews with healthcare stakeholders, and a Delphi study on healthcare quality management experts. The purpose of this stu...