This article describes the vision, methods, and implementation strategies used in building the infrastructure for PTClinResNet, a clinical research network designed to assess outcomes for health-related mobility associated with evidence-based physical therapy interventions across and within four different disability groups. Specific aims were to (1) create the infrastructure necessary to develo...

This second article of the series "An Overview of Research Designs Relevant to Nursing" presents qualitative research designs. Phenomenological, ground theory, ethnography, narrative inquiry, and other related qualitative-related research methodologies are described. In addition, the importance of qualitative research as groundwork for quantitative studies is discussed. This link between qualit...

Small private liberal arts colleges are increasingly tuition-dependent and mainly attract students by creating student-centered learning communities. On the other hand, larger universities tend to be trendsetters where its faculty tend to seek intellectual independence and are involved in career focused cutting-edge research. The Institutional Development Awards (IDeA) and Experimental Program ...

The Institute of Medicine identified “timeliness” as one of six key “aims for improvement” in its most recent report on quality. Yet patient delays remain prevalent, resulting in dissatisfaction, adverse clinical consequences, and often, higher costs. This tutorial describes several areas in which patients routinely experience significant and potentially dangerous delays and presents operations...

Article submitted to Operations Research; manuscript no. OPRE-2012-02-064 1 Optimal Dynamic Mechanism Design and the Virtual Pivot Mechanism Sham Kakade Ilan Lobel Hamid Nazerzadeh Microsoft Research, New York University and University of Southern California [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Appendix Appendix A: Proofs for Section 3 Lemma A.1 For any reportin...

Biobanks are a key emerging biomedical research infrastructure. They manifest the turn towards greater global sharing of genomic and health-related data, which is considered by many to be an ethical and scientific imperative. Our collective interests lie in improving the health and welfare of individuals, communities, and populations; improving health and welfare requires access to, and use of,...

Shared mobility systems for bicycles and cars have grown in popularity in recent years and have attracted the attention of the operational research community. Researchers have investigated several problems arising at the strategic, tactical and operational levels. This survey paper classifies the relevant literature under five main headings: station location, fleet dimensioning, station invento...

Overcoming significant technical and human difficulties, Zara recently deployed a new process that relies extensively on sophisticated operations research models to determine each inventory shipment it sends from its two central warehouses to its 1,500 stores worldwide. By taking a retail size-assortment view of a store’s inventory, the model incorporates the link between stock levels and deman...

سخن سردبیر Editorial مجله دانشگاه علوم پزشکی رفسنجان دوره هجدهم، آذر 1398، 860-859       استاندارد‌هایی برای گزارش پژوهش‌‌های کیفی Standards for Reporting Qualitative Research     محسن رضائیان[1]   M. Rezaeian   تاکنون در مجله علمی دانشگاه، مقالات گوناگونی در خصوص استاندارد‌های تدوین شده برای گزارش شفاف پژوهش‌های کمّی و از جمله کارآزمایی‌‌های بالینی [1] و مطالعات مشاهده‌ای اپیدمیو...