Physicians' prescribing behaviour is closely linked with patient safety and this area is poorly researched in Saudi Arabia. The objective of this study was to analyse physicians' prescribing patterns and the adequacy of noted information in the primary health care sector in Riyadh city. All medication prescriptions from 5 public (n = 1182) and 5 private (n = 1200) health centres were collected ...

INTRODUCTION Health services quality has been the most important criteria of judging, and its improvement causes people's satisfaction of health systems. In a health system, public and private sectors provide services and typically have been effective in promoting health services quality of community. The aim of this study was to compare the quality of health services in both public and private...

human resource management (hrm) is a noteworthy tool of all the organization. its significance has puffed-up day by day due to heterogeneous workers and organizations, to recognize and effectively manage workforce diversity by hrm practices. the main purpose of this paper is to investigate gender discrimination by means of sticky floors and glass ceiling effects in the public and private sector...

In this paper, the implementation of Building Information Modelling (BIM) systems in various selected countries is reviewed to highlight the successful practices in this field. In several situations, BIM was implemented in conjunction with Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) for better integration and interoperability of various components of BIM system. The roles of the public and private sector...

In September 2007 national standard manual was finalized and officially announced as the minimal quality requirements for all medical laboratories in the country. Apart from auditing laboratories, Reference Health Laboratory has performed benchmarking auditing of medical laboratory network (surveys) in provinces. 12(th) benchmarks performed in Tehran and Alborz provinces, Iran in 2010 in three ...

In recent years, several countries in Latin America, and around the world, have met the challenge of developing and expanding critical infrastructure by promoting private sector participation in the infrastructure sectors. Recognizing the relevance of the infrastructure sectors for the economic development of firms and industry and the well-being of the population, and given increasing constrai...

This paper examines the equilibrium relationship between politics and the economy. I consider a repeated-election model with policy and office motivated politicians. The incumbent politician chooses a tax rate and oversees the activities of the private and public sectors. Politicians differ in their ability to increase the productivity of the private sector, and in their ability to transform ta...