background: self-care needs are major problems among stroke patients. nurses can support them through interventions such as education, a change in their attitude and emphasis on their remaining abilities. however, research has shown some weak points in the quality of care given to these patients. so the aim of this study was to improve the nurses’ practice in self-care education to stroke patie...

INTRODUCTION The process by which the jurisprudence course was restructured at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College is chronicled. METHOD A Delphi process used to restructure the course is described, and the results of a student satisfaction survey are presented. RESULTS When asked "I think this material was clinically relevant," over 81% of the 76 students who respondents strongly ag...

Although Canada and the United States have fundamentally different systems for financing health care, there are many similarities between the two countries in their approaches to physician payment. The similarities have increased recently with the adoption of the Medicare fee schedule. Canadian provinces have been using fee schedules for more than 20 years. This article provides an overview of ...

BACKGROUND Many full-time Ugandan government health providers take on additional jobs - a phenomenon called dual practice. We describe the complex patterns that characterize the evolution of dual practice in Uganda, and the local management practices that emerged in response, in five government facilities. An in-depth understanding of dual practice can contribute to policy discussions on improv...

The present paper examines whether supplier inducement exists for primary physicians' services in Norway. Our model assumes optimization behavior of the physician. The research design is adapted to the institutional setting of Norwegian primary physician services, where there is a fixed fee schedule. According to our model, the physician has three choices: to rational services, to supply an opt...

The simulated annealing (SA) algorithm [14] [5] has been applied to every di cult optimization problem in VLSI CAD. Existing SA implementations use monotone decreasing, or cooling, temperature schedules motivated by the algorithm's proof of optimality as well as by an analogy with statistical thermodynamics. This paper gives strong evidence that challenges the correctness of using such schedule...

Background and Aim: Evidence shows that a considerable percentage of Iranian young men suffer from obesity and being overweight at the onset of military services. This study aimed to investigate the soldier's knowledge, attitude and practice about obesity and overweight management based on the Extended Parallel Processes Model. Methods: This KAP (Knowledge, Attitude and Practice) study was con...

Hospital wards need to be staffed by nurses round the clock, resulting in irregular working hours for many nurses. Over the years, the nurses' influence on the scheduling has been increased in order to improve their working conditions. In Sweden it is common to apply a kind of self-scheduling where each nurse individually proposes a schedule, and then the final schedule is determined through in...

Networks of workstations (NOWs) provide an economical platform for high performance parallel computing. Such networks may comprise a variety of different types of workstations and network devices. This paper addresses the problem of efficient multicast in a heterogeneous communication model. Although the problem of finding optimal multicast schedules is known to be NP-complete in this model, a ...