this study adopted a survey research strategy to examine the impact of servant leadership and its dimensions on team effectiveness and trust in teams. the servant leadership, a new model of leadership, in recent years has been an area of interest to researchers and administrative staff. furthermore, institutions of higher education in the third millennium, need to maintain and increase the reli...

efforts to achieve effective and meaningful patient and public involvement (ppi) in healthcare have existed for nearly a century, albeit with limited success. this brief commentary discusses a recent paper by carter and martin exploring the “challenges facing healthwatch, a new consumer champion in england,” and places these challenges in the context of the broader struggle to give a voice to h...

The paper presents the possibility of applying model limited rationality to solve forming project teams for IT systems development and implementation problem.To achieve this goal, following tasks were set achieved: a review standards in field information technology, which determine requirements labor resources involved work was performed; selection executors team, is based on parameters charact...

Teams of agents can be made more effective by the introduction of team assistants to accomplish specific tasks. Team assistants may be real or virtual and may be first class team members or only team adjuncts. For example, a team assistant may be created as a virtual, first class team member to serve as team manager to coordinate the actions of team members. The need for a team assistant might ...

We used depletion studies designed to further investigate the role of the DnaK, DnaJ, and GrpE heat shock proteins in the SecB-dependent and SecB-independent secretion pathways. Our previous finding that SecB-deficient strains containing the grpE280 mutation were still secretion proficient raised the possibility that GrpE was not involved in this secretory pathway. Using depletion studies, we n...

BACKGROUND Recent years have seen a vast increase in the amount of health promotion activity undertaken in general practice. AIM This study set out to identify the level of general practitioner and nurse involvement in activities aimed at coronary heart disease prevention and to examine variations in involvement. METHOD A questionnaire survey was undertaken of a sample of general practition...

Patients with chronic or complex medical or psychiatric conditions are treated by many practioners, including general practitioners (GPs). Formal liaison between primary and specialist is often assumed to offer benefits to patients. The aim of this study was to assess the efficacy of formal liaison of GPs with specialist service providers on patient health outcomes, by conducting a systematic r...

BACKGROUND The last decades have for patients with inflammatory rheumatic diseases seen a shift towards more physically active rehabilitation programs, often provided as out-patients with less use of inpatient facilities. There is little research on which effect the multidisciplinary team has on health outcomes for patients with rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis,...

Disseminated neonatal herpes simplex virus infection usually presents with multi-organ involvement. Untreated, this disease has a mortality rate of approximately 80%. Here, we describe a well-appearing 3-week old infant with isolated compensated hepatic failure caused by HSV-2.