This paper documents an Action Research project undertaken to implement a Continuity of Care Model in an Extended Care Centre. System Dynamics modelling and group-modelling techniques were used to examine and improve patient length of stay (LOS). Several indicators of success of the project are noted. They included the reduction of LOS, improvements in teamwork and staff morale, and various sys...

This paper analyses fiscal autonomy in Germany. First, it provides an overview of fiscal autonomy. What is novel in this paper compared to previous studies is the development of a fiscal autonomy coefficient for the states, based on communal data. The basic intention in the empirical part is to analyse how fiscal autonomy affects the tax morale, defined as the intrinsic motivation to pay taxes,...

cognize this dilemma might encourage them to develop functional teams. Individual neurologists and geriatricians could continue to diagnose routine neurological problems referred to them. In addition, they could subspecialize so that each might have a specific input in a multidisciplinary team which focused, for example, on the diagnosis and continuing care of the big three: stroke, the epileps...

Good communication in any serious or potentially serious situation is a complex and difficult art, full of paradox. Many of those who are best at it never analyse what they do, let alone write about it. Some think that the subject cannot be taught, being dependent only on personality and experience, perhaps fostered by example. As with leadership, the essence of a good relationship between doct...

ahmad moharram is one of the contemporary poets who felt poverty and deprivation along his life. since his view toward life is a realistic one, so his literature is a realistic one that can be a whole mirror of his contemporary society. since nationalism and patriotism is one of the prominent indices of realistic literature, so this essay tries to analyze national morale of this poet. poem and ...