Outsourcing their voluntary products to thirdparty administrators (TPAs) to support key administrative business functions seems to be the most obvious choice for insurers to overcome the impediments for a quick entry into the voluntary market. However, what’s also needed is a strategy for optimizing TPA usage and bringing voluntary products back in house once the anticipated performance thresho...

introduction: old methods of administrating cannot cover the rapid changes today. these changes redounded new organizations like learning organizations to be formed. the purpose of this research is to study of relationship between the learning organization and organizational commitment among hospital managers. methods: this is a descriptive analytic survey. the population of study was 210 nursi...

BACKGROUND Insufficient attention has been paid to the process of conducting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's School Health Index (SHI) to promote collaboration between universities and urban school districts when developing adolescent health promotion initiatives. This article provides an overview of the real-world contextual challenges and opportunities this type of collaborat...

BACKGROUND The influenza vaccination rate in hospitals among health care workers in Europe remains low. As there is a lack of research about management factors we assessed factors reported by administrators of general hospitals that are associated with the influenza vaccine uptake among health care workers. METHODS All 81 general hospitals in the Netherlands were approached to participate in ...

PREAMBLE We seek to understand and control the forces that govern our lives, to participate in shaping our futures. We are no longer confident that specialists and administrators-the staff of our social institutions-will govern them wisely and justly without our participation. Health services cannot be excluded from the demand for greater public accountability and participation. Health is too i...

OBJECTIVES This article examines the views of nursing staff and administrators in long-term care facilities (LTCFs) regarding a clinical pathway for managing urinary tract infections (UTIs) in LTCF residents. DESIGN A qualitative (case study) design was used. SETTING Data were collected from 8 LTCFs in southern Ontario and 2 in Iowa enrolled in a larger randomized controlled trial of clinic...

OBJECTIVES To describe the concerns and priorities of key stakeholders in a developing country regarding ethical obligations held by researchers and perceptions of equity or "what is fair" for study participants in an HIV/AIDS clinical drug trial. DESIGN Qualitative study with focus groups. SETTING Teaching and referral hospital and rural health centre in Western Kenya. PARTICIPANTS Poten...

the study aims to review library administrators, role in strategic planning to improve staffs, practice in sari universities. it is a descriptive-survey study. the statistical population includes 41 library administrators and staff in sari province but 35 subjects responded to the questionnaire used to gather the data. the data indicate that there is a significant relationship between administr...