BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Electronic health records (EHRs), resident duty hour restrictions, and Patient-centered Medical Home (PCMH) innovations have all impacted the clinical practices of residency programs over the past decade. The University of Washington Family Medicine Network (UWFMN) residencies have collaborated for 10 years in collecting and comparing data regarding the productivity an...

Compelling evidence exists that conflict and communication problems occur between nursing home staff and family members of residents. However, few interventions have been documented that simultaneously address the needs of both groups. The Partners in Caregiving program was created to train staff and family members in communication techniques and conflict resolution skills. Through a joint meet...

This article is part of a book entitled Productivity, Innovation. Management and Development : A study in the Productivity Culture of Nations and System Renewal. The book was supported by a grant from the Quality Improvement Programme of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. The initiation, implementation, and development of productivity and innovation require skills, creativity, commitme...

The body of research linking competition and productivity has been growing in recent years and there appears to be a strong positive association. This chapter sets out the economic evidence in support of the thesis that strong competition supports productivity gains by encouraging innovation activity, more efficient business practices and technological diffusion. By way of example, the chapter ...

AIM To determine if younger and older hospital employed nurses have differences in their self-reported health, health related productivity and quality of care. BACKGROUND An understanding of age cohort differences may assist nurse managers in understanding the health related productivity and potential quality of care concerns of their staff. METHOD A cross-sectional survey design was utilis...

The primary objective of this study is to verify the effects of the accumulation of intellectual capital on organizational performance of Taiwan-listed IC design houses; while using productivity as the moderator, and interviewing management staff of section-supervisor level and above of these design houses as the research subjects. The simple Random Sampling method is used to sample the populat...

Inventors often experience a low productivity after their company has been subject to a merger or acquisition (M&As). It is of central managerial interest to identify factors facilitating the integration of new inventive staff and thereby counteracting innovation declines after M&As. This paper provides empirical evidence into the role of acquiring firms’ absorptive capacity for the post-merger...