OBJECTIVE To describe and evaluate priority setting in the context of hospital priority setting and more specifically to evaluate the use of an appeals process. DESIGN Qualitative case study and evaluation using the ethical framework 'accountability for reasonableness'. SETTING The University Health Network (UHN), a network of three large urban teaching hospitals affiliated with the Univers...

The 'Reusable Learning Objects' Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (RLO-CETL) is a five-year project (2005-2010) involving staff from three universities (London Metropolitan, Cambridge University and the University of Nottingham) in a collaborative programme of development, deployment and evaluation of a range of multimedia learning objects that can be stored in repositories, access...

Technology has virtually occupied human activities in such a way that many have relied on it providing solutions to problems. Language pedagogy is one of the areas where technological-aided or digital tools continued prevail, though making language lecturing and learning more interesting. The use proven enhance lecturing, several attempts been made by scholars ascertain perception lecturers tow...

Albanian universities face a variety of challenges which reflect the national and international factors in political, social, economic sphere. On one hand Universities shouldestablish high teaching standards whichequip students with necessary competences requested by labour marketand on other they should play an important role boosting innovation within industries through scientific research, t...

Converting traditional face-to-face course offerings into distance delivery formats is one of the greatest challenges facing administrators and faculty in higher education today. In addressing this challenge, it is evident that there are two primary approaches to managing distance course development. Some faculties opt to develop and deliver courses on their own (Reinert & Fryback, 1997), where...

The scope of this article is to analyze the working process of administrators at a Federal University Hospital (HUF). It includes research with a qualitative approach conducted through interviews with twelve administrators. The work process, the work tools and the human activity per se are understood to be under scrutiny. Work is acknowledged as a category that analyzes the management methods u...

INTRODUCTION Hypertension is a major modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular and kidney disease, yet the proportion of adults whose hypertension is controlled is low. The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) is a model for care delivery that emphasizes patient-centered and team-based care and focuses on quality and safety. Our goal was to investigate changes in hypertension care under PCMH im...