PURPOSE To investigate the set up and operation of a Managed Clinical Network for cardiac services and assess its impact on patient care. METHODS This single case study used process evaluation with observational before and after comparison of indicators of quality of care and costs. The study was conducted in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland and used a three-level framework. Process evaluation...

Institute of Computational Modeling SB RAS, Academgorodok, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, 660036 e-mail: [email protected], phone +7 3912 495382 Abstract Risk measures are widely used in insurance pricing, portfolio selection, and in decision-making in general. Two prevalent classes of risk measures are expected utility (a dollar transform), and distorted probability (a probability transform). Both appro...

Entropy measures of probability distributions are widely used measures in ecology, biology, genetics, and in other fields, to quantify species diversity of a community. Unfortunately, entropy–based diversity indices, or diversity indices for short, suffer from three problems. First, when computing the diversity for samples withdrawn from communities with different structures, diversity indices ...

Regulation and risk management in banks depend on underlying risk measures. In general this is the only purpose that is seen for risk measures. In this paper we suggest that the reporting of risk measures can be used to determine the loss distribution function for a financial entity. We demonstrate that a lack of sufficient information can lead to ambiguous risk situations. We give examples, sh...

Abstract The aims of the present study were to detect Escherichia coli in chicken distributed Birjand, investigate prevalence ESBL and AmpC beta-lactamases producers among them, identify their antibiotic resistance patterns. was conducted on 150 samples, antimicrobial susceptibility patterns determined by Kirby–Bauer disk diffusion method. Phenotypic identification performed combined test (CDT)...

This paper explores how self-set security goal orientations and self-regulation theory can provide potential venues to motivate end-user sustained IS security compliance. Organisations have found that it is essential to motivate end-users to comply with information security measures and policies on a regular basis. The research aims to obtain an understanding of the relationship between individ...

Previous studies have shown that exercise training benefits cognitive, neural, and physical health markers in older adults. It is likely that these positive effects will diminish if participants return to sedentary lifestyles following training cessation. Theory posits that that the neurocognitive processes underlying self-regulation, namely executive function (EF), are important to maintaining...

AIMS Chronic benzodiazepine use is highly prevalent and is associated with a variety of negative health consequences. The present study examined the long-term effectiveness of a tailored patient education intervention on benzodiazepine use. DESIGN A randomized controlled trial was conducted comprising three arms, comparing (i) a single tailored intervention; (ii) a multiple tailored intervent...