Issues involved in overseas assistance. B. Direct assistance programs

Surgical competence in general surgery assistance: a brief report

Medication access through patient assistance programs.

The Notes section welcomes the following types of contributions: (1) practical innovations or solutions to everyday practice problems, (2) substantial updates or elaborations on work previously published by the same authors, (3) important confirmations of research findings previously published by others, and (4) short research reports, including practice surveys, of modest scope or interest. No...

Direct Positioning with Channel Database Assistance

When we have knowledge of the positions of nearby walls and buildings, estimating the source location becomes a very efficient way of characterizing and estimating a radio channel. We consider localization performance with and without this knowledge. We treat the multipath channel as a set of ‘virtual receivers’ whose positions can be pre-stored in a channel database. Using wall knowledge, we d...

Assessing the effects of employee assistance programs: a review of employee assistance program evaluations.

Employee assistance programs have grown at a dramatic rate, yet the effectiveness of these programs has been called into question. The purpose of this paper was to assess the effectiveness of employee assistance programs (EAPs) by reviewing recently published EAP evaluations. All studies evaluating EAPs published since 1975 from peer-reviewed journals in the English language were included in th...

Gender Differences in the Use of Assistance Programs