First : Cut the Paperwork

Drug policies must consider social , counselling needs

by GARY BREWTON New registration procedures requiring students to sign up f o r s p r i n g c o u r s e s b y November 18 have been put i n t o e f f e c t t o i m p r o v e e s t i m a t e s on the size of classes. Each student is required to turn in by next Tuesday a mark-sense form signed by his advisor and listing prospective courses. He will have the option to drop and add courses without ...

Problems with the NHS Cryptography Strategy

Clinical data networking has the potential to improve patient care in various ways. Electronic referrals could cut hospital administration times; electronic discharge letters could help GPs provide better follow-up treatment; electronic pathology and radiology reports could cut the delays, errors and paperwork associated with paper systems; and telemedicine could give GPs and patients access to...

Taming clinical research's paper tigers.

Several years ago, a prominent NIH intramural physicianscientist wanted to translate basic science observations to clinical medicine, but the paperwork involved in taking a protocol from concept to conduct was overwhelming. ‘‘It was easier to get a paper published in Nature, Science , or The New England Journal of Medicine than to get a protocol written and approved,’’ said the frustrated scien...

Effort reporting: government drops much-criticized paperwork.

Buried in Paperwork: Excessive Reporting in Organizations

This paper offers an explanation why a principal may demand too much paperwork from a subordinate: Due to limited liability and moral hazard a principal is unable to appropriate all rents. Internal paperwork allows a more accurate monitoring of the agent and enables the principal to appropriate a larger part of the agent’s rent. In her decision the principal disregards the agent’s cost increase...