Rendement du Douglas

Factors Affecting Physician Performance: Implications for Performance Improvement and Governance Facteurs qui influent sur le rendement des médecins : répercussions pour l’amélioration du rendement et pour la gouvernance

Background: a physician’s personal and professional characteristics constitute only one, and not necessarily the most important, determining factor of clinical performance. our study assessed how physician, organizational and systemic factors affect family physicians’ performance. Method: our study examined 532 family practitioners who were randomly selected for peer assessment by the College o...

Generalized Douglas-Weyl Finsler Metrics

In this paper, we study generalized Douglas-Weyl Finsler metrics. We find some conditions under which the class of generalized Douglas-Weyl (&alpha, &beta)-metric with vanishing S-curvature reduce to the class of Berwald metrics.

Editorial Douglas

The Value of Performance Measurement in Promoting Improvements in Women’s Health Importance de la mesure du rendement dans la promotion de l’amélioration de la santé des femmes

Objectives: To determine the factors associated with the use and impact of performance data relevant to women’s health. Methods: We developed a survey on six levels of information use based on Knott and Wildavsky’s (1980) policy utilization framework and used this survey to determine Ontario hospital administrators’ use of women’s health report indicators. We related responses to this survey to...

On Special Generalized Douglas-Weyl Metrics

In this paper, we study a special class of generalized Douglas-Weyl metrics whose Douglas curvature is constant along any Finslerian geodesic. We prove that for every Landsberg metric in this class of Finsler metrics, ? = 0 if and only if H = 0. Then we show that every Finsler metric of non-zero isotropic flag curvature in this class of metrics is a Riemannian if and only if ? = 0.