BACKGROUND The Medical Home model recommends that Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN) receive a medical care plan, outlining the child's major medical issues and care needs to assist with care coordination. While care plans are a primary component of effective care coordination, the creation and maintenance of care plans is time, labor, and cost intensive, and the desired content of...

Wireless spectrum is becoming a vital and scarce resource due to the increase development and deployment of mobile device and their associated applications. Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA) represents one of the few ways that our nation can be able cope with our anticipated spectrum crisis1. Wireless communications is a key tool in today’s economy and efficient use of this spectrum is paramount. I...

Intervention Patients were allocated to GEM (n=294), consisting of a home visit by a social worker, 2 visits to the GEM clinic, and 6 months of management by an interdisciplinary team, or usual care (n=274) for a mean 6 months. A team comprising a geriatrics nurse practitioner, a geriatrician, a social worker, and a nurse assessed patients, set intervention priorities, created a plan of care, a...

Purpose The purpose of this report is to respond to a JSC request to WOAP to develop an outline of an action plan on surface fluxes and a timetable for its full development in collaboration with WCRP sub-programs. All relevant programs at the last JSC meeting (GEWEX, CLIVAR, CLIC, SOLAS, WGNE and GCOS Panels) expressed interest in the process and, together with a representative of IGBP and othe...

introduction so far, many evaluation methodologies for assessing urban plans have been introduced, but comprehensive and systematic evaluation methodologies up to now have received little attention. in recent years the plan - process - results (ppr) approach as a comprehensive and systematic evaluation methodology based on the policy- plan/programme-implementation-process(ppip) methodology has ...