M am hospitals ami physicians today face serious financial challenges because of managed care and reimbursement short tails from programs such as Medicare. They respond to these challenges by cutting costs. But such efforts have a negative impact on staffing levels, inevitably reducing the time caregivers can spend with patients. As a result, consumers are becoming increasingly dissatisfied wit...

OBJECTIVE We investigated implicit communication strategies for anticipatory information sharing during team performance of tasks with varying degrees of complexity. We compared the strategies used by teams with the highest level of performance to those used by the lowest-performing teams to evaluate the frequency and methods of communications used as a function of task structure. BACKGROUND ...

A prerequisite for a discussion of effective nutrition education is the establishment of the premise that nutrition is a specific and separate branch of the life sciences. The nutritionist must be similarly identifiable as having a distinct role and professional function. Recent discussions of the state of nutrition have been equivocal on this point: the Neuberger report (ARC/MRC Committee, 197...

This paper reports on the project “Effective Internet Education for Everyone,” funded by the National Science Foundation (DUE 0196118) for $300,000. We use an asynchronous model of Internet-based education where the student can work on materials at times, places, and a pace of her own choosing. We are developing materials for two different courses: Precalculus Mathematics and Overview of Comput...