INTRODUCTION The Food and Drug Administration mandated that food products list the amount of trans fat per serving on nutrition facts labels by January 1, 2006. There have been no coordinated efforts to raise awareness about trans fat since the policy went into effect, but news coverage may promote informed decisions about food purchases. This paper assesses whether news coverage influenced sal...

The definition, implementation and monitoring of valuable analytical quality specifications have played a fundamental role in improving the quality of laboratory services and reducing the rates of analytical errors. However, a body of evidence has been accumulated on the relevance of the extra-analytical phases, namely the pre-analytical steps, their vulnerability and impact on the overall qual...

This paper explores technostress in the context of the professional sales area. This area is unique in that sales professionals prefer to spend time with customers in developing interpersonal relationships, rather than on technology related tasks. At the same time, the modern sales environment requires the use of IS such as sales force automation applications. The sales role also offers increas...

Since Akerlof’s theory of a market for lemons, economists have viewed quality uncertainty as an informational advantage for sellers. Drawing on frontier techniques, we propose in this paper a simple method to measure inefficiency of both sellers and buyers in markets for goods with different levels of quality. We apply our non-parametric double-frontier framework to the case of illicit substanc...

n engl j med 355;19 www.nejm.org november 9, 2006 1952 including Medtronic’s Endeavor (coated with zotarolimus), Abbott’s Xience V (coated with everolimus), and Conor Medsystem’s CoStar (coated with paclitaxel); however, given the concerns about late stent thrombosis, the FDA could ask companies for longer-term data before considering newer stents for approval in the United States. How long tha...

How to improve healthcare system’ efficiency has been highly concerned by Chinese government. The objectives of this paper are to establish production function of medical service and analyze returns to scale; to measure technical efficiency; and to highlight possible policy implications of the results for policy makers. Stochastic Frontier Approach (SFA) is employed in this paper based on data ...

Until recently, the modern pharmaceutical industry has never stopped growing since the mid-1800s. Drugs such as morphine, quinine, amphetamine, antidepressants, barbiturates, insulin, anti-inflammatory drugs and many others have generated extensive revenues for the so-called Big Pharma [1]. Unfortunately, several significant changes have occurred a few years ago. The 2008 worldwide crisis has b...

Fourty-two village animal health workers called keymen (KM) and 84 veterinary assistants (VA) involved in a Basic Animal Health Service (BAHS) Programme in northern Malawi were interviewed during 1998. The general characteristics and perceptions of both groups were analysed using uni- and multivariate techniques. Detailed sales and treatment patterns of six KM and 12 VA were evaluated for the p...

The purpose of this study is to clarify the benefit and loss for the pharmaceutical companies when they adopt introducing pharmacogenomics in their clinical trials (in the following description, clinical trials by using pharmacogenomics is called "pgx clinical trial"), that is, when they use genetic information in their clinical trials. Particularly, the benefit for the pharmaceutical companies...

Inventory has a very important role in increasing sales and service to consumers. The purpose of this study was determine the information patterns form association rules at certain period that can provide advice pharmacy managing drug inventory. algorithm used is priori results rules. Association are obtained by implementing an apriori data mining website-based system using laravel resulting ca...