While the Excellent Care for All Act, 2010 (ECFA Act) provides a comprehensive approach to stimulating quality improvement in healthcare, there are other examples of legislations articulating strategies aimed at the same goal but proposing different approaches. This paper reviews quality of care legislations in the Netherlands, the United States, England and Australia, compares those pieces of ...

A large-scale research study on the impact of overseas experience for undergraduate professional school students showed significant change in several dimensions of intercultural competence, including open-mindedness and emotional resilience, as a result of international study. Attitude change differed by length of study abroad term. Measured dimensions of intercultural competence are valuable f...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the clinical outcome of patients with hip or femur fractures sustained while travelling, depending on the place where surgery was performed (abroad or in Switzerland). METHODS This was an ambispective cohort study of 90 patients in two groups. Outcome measures were: number and type of complications, impairment of walking ability at six months compared to the preoperat...

Background: Measuring the effect of a study abroad program is one way to determine its impact on developing students’ cultural competence. To date, few articles describe outcomes of such strategies. In some published studies, a description of the program or intervention is frequently not offered making it difficult to utilize findings or to replicate them. Purpose: To measure the effects of a s...

Global engagement of firms can take a variety of forms. We argue that there are considerable advantages of developing models that allow for a wide set of alternatives of organizational form. We illustrate this firstly using plant level data which allows us to distinguish firms that serve only the domestic market, firms that export final goods abroad, firms that outsource abroad the production o...

This study investigates the effect of learning environment (study abroad vs. at home) on the pragmatic development of Chinese speakers’ L2 English refusals. A total of 20 Chinese Study Abroad (SA) students participated in the study and their L2 refusals were examined over the course of one academic year. These refusals were compared with those of 20 Chinese At Home (AH) students. Data were coll...

This document describes my study plan with semester granularity as well as the contents of my research project. Readers are presupposed to have a basic understanding of accounting and computer science. Semester Title 1 (F2003) Course work, REA survey and formalization/critique 2 (S2004) Course work, SCM survey, declarative contract/process framework design 3 (F2004) Abroad Course work, declarat...

This article is intended to give advice for trainees in hospital specialties or subspecialties, and will be of very limited use to those wishing to do GP work or else work in the developing world. There is published advice available, but it tends to be country specific and has a tendency to get out of date very quickly. 1'2 Examples in this review are given for various countries and disciplines...