INTRODUCTION Research organizations face challenges in creating infrastructures that cultivates and sustains interdisciplinary team science. The objective of this paper is to identify structural elements of organizations and training that promote team science. METHODS We qualitatively analyzed the National Institutes of Health's Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health, K...

SEMINARS IN MEDICAL PRACTICE 11 uality measurement and improvement programs are vital components of all health care organizations, which can reach their maximum potential only if physicians accept a major role in shaping them. In the course of their careers, physicians almost certainly will participate in health care organizations. To contribute meaningfully to quality programs, physicians need...

OBJECTIVES: With the continued push to implement empirically supported treatments (ESTs) into community-based organizations, it is important to investigate whether working condition disruptions occur during this process. While there are many studies investigating best practices and how to adopt them, the literature lacks studies investigating the working conditions in programs that currently us...

The importance of educating organizational end users about their roles and responsibilities towards information security is widely acknowledged. However, many current user education programs have been created by security professionals who do not necessarily have an educational background. This paper show how the use of learning taxonomies, specifically Bloom’s taxonomy, can improve such educati...

PURPOSE This review of the literature examines the effectiveness of continuing education programs in long-term care facilities. DESIGN AND METHODS A comprehensive literature search was made for evaluation studies and included computerized bibliographic databases, manual searches of journals, the bibliographies of retrieved articles, and information from key informants. RESULTS Forty-eight s...

Few studies have examined associations between the availability of smoking cessation services in addiction treatment organizations and specific cultural, staffing, and resource barriers. Telephone interviews were conducted with administrators of 897 addiction treatment organizations in the United States. These data revealed that few programs had adopted the full bundle of five recommended tobac...