Industry Payment to Vascular Neurologists

Differential effects of pre and post-payment on neurologists' response rates to a postal survey

BACKGROUND Monetary incentives are an effective way of increasing response rates to surveys, though they are generally less effective in physicians, and are more effective when the incentive is paid up-front rather than when made conditional on completion. METHODS In this study we examine the effectiveness of pre- and post-completion incentives on the response rates of all the neurologists in...

Risk of Late Payment in the Malaysian Construction Industry

The purpose of this study is to identify the underlying causes of late payment from the contractors’ perspective in the Malaysian construction industry and to recommend effective solutions to mitigate late payment problems. The target groups of respondents in this study were Grades G3, G5, G6 and G7 contractors with specialization in building works and civil engineering works registered with th...

Maintaining Payment Card Industry (PCI) Compliance in the Cloud

Protecting privacy is a major concern of people using the internet. Purchasing items online inevitably builds up profiles within databases. Ensuring that this data remains protected is vital if society is to continue to trust electronic avenues of purchasing. Having credit card information leaked or hacked is of serious concern. PCI Compliance attempts to protect individual users from such situ...

Training non-neurologists to diagnose epilepsy

PURPOSE Narrowing the epilepsy treatment gap in the world's poorest countries is one of the greatest challenges that the epilepsy community faces. The reliable diagnosis of epilepsy is the first step in this. In well-off countries, doctors, often neurologists, carry this out but this is unrealistic in the developing world where there are often no neurologists, particularly in the rural areas wh...

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