BACKGROUND Instrumentation with established reliability and validity is not yet routinely utilized to assess readiness for transition from pediatric to adult care for youth and young adults with chronic conditions, including sickle cell disease (SCD). OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to develop a SCD specific readiness for transition assessment tool. SUBJECTS Fifty-seven youths with SCD,...

Unemployed individuals of pre-retirement age face significant challenges in finding a new job. This may be partly due to their lack of psychological readiness to go through a job interview. We view psychological readiness as one of the psychological attitude components. It is an active conscious readiness to interact with a certain aspect of reality, based on previously acquired experience. It ...

Objective To evaluate the service readiness of health facilities in Bangladesh, Haiti, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Nepal, Rwanda, Senegal, Uganda and the United Republic of Tanzania. Methods Using existing data from service provision assessments of the health systems of the 10 study countries, we calculated a service readiness index for each of 8443 health facilities. This index represents the pe...

Activities of insurance, like other work fields, have been greatly influences by new technologies; therefore, they must be at the suitable level of electronic readiness to provide more effective information services in line with the needs of new era. But the question is, are the insurance companies in Iran ready to use the e-commerce opportunities efficiently? To answer, it is necessary t...

in this paper an embedded framework is proposed to employ corporate entrepreneurship concepts into a business process reengineering (bpr) technique. the former has a strong theoretical background and the latter has application potentials. our case study is a government trading company (g.t.c). we applied a mix research method to answer the research questions, where, by using the grounded theory...

as information has the role of organization asset, its protection is the key to the survival of any organization. information security management system (isms) defines protection of information in three specific concepts: information confidentiality, accuracy, and availability. many failures in implementing isms rooted in organizational problems and lack of attention to the state of readiness o...

nowadays knowledge and technology have become more important in organizations. sometimes the organizations forget their knowledge and skills unconsciously due to information inconsistencies and sometimes they forget their knowledge and skills consciously to become more agile. some aspects of forgetting are useful while the other aspects are harmful. moreover information technology has made a ba...