Circular interaction between linguistic departments and language departments

Relationships Between Highway Departments and Public Utilities

To approach the subject in a reasonably intelligent manner, 1 thought first of finding out what other states were doing— how they were approaching the problems, and whether they were coming up with any solutions. I mailed a questionnaire to fourteen states, mostly surrounding Indiana and Ohio, and therefore with similar public utility organiza­ tions and similar types of trees and other woody f...

Casualty Departments

There have been considerable changes in every branch of medicine since the in' ception of the Health Act, and in no branch is this more obvious than in the casualty departments of our hospitals throughout the country. There are many reasons changes and some of the main ones are discussed under three main headings. Firstly the public have changed in their attitude to the hospitals. The nearby in...

Evaluating the Relationship between Productivity and Quality in Emergency Departments

BACKGROUND In the United States, emergency departments (EDs) are constantly pressured to improve operational efficiency and quality in order to gain financial benefits and maintain a positive reputation. OBJECTIVES The first objective is to evaluate how efficiently EDs transform their input resources into quality outputs. The second objective is to investigate the relationship between the eff...

UCSF Departments at ZSFG

Analyzing Main and Interaction Effects of Length of Stay Determinants in Emergency Departments

Background Measuring and understanding main determinants of length of stay (LOS) in emergency departments (EDs) is critical from an operations perspective, since LOS is one of the main performance indicators of ED operations. Therefore, this study analyzes both the main and interaction effects of four widely-used independent determinants of ED-LOS.   Methods The analysis...