Background Evidence-informed deliberative processes (EDPs) were recently introduced to guide health technology assessment (HTA) agencies to improve their processes towards more legitimate decision-making. The EDP framework provides guidance that covers the HTA process, ie, contextual factors, installation of an appraisal committee, selecting health technologies and criteria, assessment, a...

A survey of 887 employees in a German government agency assessed the antecedents and consequences of idiosyncratic arrangements individual workers negotiated with their supervisors. Work arrangements promoting the individualization of employment conditions, such as part-time work and telecommuting, were positively related to the negotiation of idiosyncratic deals ("i-deals"). Worker personal in...

Energy-extraction results in significant disturbance to rangelands in Wyoming and other western US states. Although reclamation is required by law, US General Accounting Office reports from 1999 and 2005 are clear that affected government agencies have--over much of the past decade--had difficulty accomplishing mandated environmental monitoring of extraction-related disturbance. We evaluated tw...

introduction: hospitals, like most executive agencies have scarified the importance of policy, planning and supervision with their executive actions. with their errors, they waste the resources and remain away from development and competitive arena.so during recent years the ministry of health and medical education as well as other areas, in order to make rational government size, strengthening...

Americans’ trust in government officials has never been lower. Despite the intense public focus on ethics recent years, legal scholarship subject sparse. This Article fills gap by examining regime of federal executive branch depth, with a discussion both applicable standards and agencies offices that are charged ensuring comply those standards. The describes how current system heavily emphasize...

The article highlights the factors that led to a major restriction of investigator’s procedural independence as result sharp growth in number procedural-administrative and procedural-control powers held by chief investigative body. One these reasons is explained author’s efforts address conse-quences from well-known crisis law enforcement agencies 1990s, which resulted decline quality prelimina...

We have studied the influence of the peripheral vasodilator hydralazine (HDZ) on the vasculature and blood perfusion of two members of a series of subcutaneous murine adenocarcinomata of the colon (MAC tumours), and the influence of HDZ on the efficacy and/or toxicity of TCNU and melphalan.