Over the last 20 years, the increasing complexity and technical intensiveness of health care in French hospitals have increased the level of uncertainty in the process of care. This paper argues that beyond quality management approaches, the most important issue in health care management is the need to implement new organizational methods in response to the dynamic changes that are transforming...

In 1990, an attitude survey was conducted of 402 animal rights activists attending a national march in Washington, DC (S. Pious, 1991). The present article reports the results of a follow-up survey of 372 activists attending a similar event in 1996. A comparison of the 1990 and 1996 surveys suggests that during this time a significant shift took place in the priorities of the animal rights move...

As we know that the online mining of streaming data is one of the most important issues in data mining. In this paper, we proposed an efficient one.frequent item sets over a transaction-sensitive sliding window), to mine the set of all frequent item sets in data streams with a transaction-sensitive sliding window. An effective bit-sequence representation of items is used in the proposed algorit...

Continuing the Push for Cost Reductions The single most important issue in health care is eliminating unnecessary medical spending. Health costs have traditionally increased at 1% to 2% annually above the growth of the economy. Long-term financial security requires the growth in cost to slow to economic growth or less. With about one-third of medical spending estimated to be wasted, achieving l...

introduction. determining educational needs is the first step in educational planning. need assessment influences all the decisions regarding educational content, objectives & effective use of resources. to determine the correspondence of educational needs & content in the psychiatry & pediatrics prevalent diseases workshops. methods. to do this cross- sectional study, 50 physicians participati...

Background & aim: Men’s sexual and reproductive health is one of the most important public health issues. However, less attention has been paid to this matter, compared to women’s health issues. The aim of this study was to evaluate the educational needs of men regarding sexual and reproductive health in Ahvaz, Iran. Methods:This descriptive study was performed on 1,068 adult men (aged 20-60 ye...