AIMS Because logistical and financial obstacles impede using large prospective cohort studies, surveillance decisions in occupational settings must often be made without evidence of relative benefits and costs. Using the example of isocyanate induced asthma, the most commonly reported immune mediated occupational asthma, the authors developed a model based approach to evaluate the costs and ben...

Three correlational studies investigated the relationship between the time costs associated with Stroop stimuli (Stroop-costs) with the time costs associated with task-switching (switch-costs) obtained from colour-word stimuli and digit stimuli. In all studies, large and significant positive correlations were found between different measures of switch-costs. However, only small (and sometimes n...

During the planning phase of modern, complex, block-structured, large-area located, but still landscape-harmonized health-care buildings, the key is the optimal positioning of the blocks and functions, simultaneously ensuring the most-effective backup-paths for any transportation route failure in the buildings in order to speed up system operation, reduce maintenance costs and especially to imp...

Many shared service centres are being established in the Dutch government as part of an egovernment program, primarily in order to save costs. However, as literature shows, developing shared service centres proves to be a complex task. In this exploratory research, an initial taxonomy is created presenting various organisational, managerial and technological challenges that organisations can en...

Prevalent Wi-Fi networks have adopted various protections to prevent eavesdropping caused by the intrinsic shared nature of wireless medium. However, many of them are based on pre-shared secret incurring key management costs, and are still vulnerable from practical countermeasures. In this study, we investigate the feasibility of using defensive jamming technique to protect enterprise Wi-Fi net...

ôbjective: â rare phenomenon of shared psychosis disorder occurring in the context of bipolar ï disorder, in identical twins is reported. çase presentation: two identical twins with shared psychotic manic syndrome were admitted and received antipsychotic and lithium as their treatment. psychotic symptoms of primary case did not improve and her diagnosis changed into schizophrenia. they had hypo...

We consider scheduling a shared server in a two class make to stock closed queueing net work We include server switching costs and lost sales costs equivalently server starvation penalties for lost jobs If the switching costs are zero the optimal policy has a monotonic threshold type of switching curve provided that the service times are identical For completely symmetric systems without set up...

Professional interactions among health providers are critical to an efficient shared-care model. This research investigates whether the collaborative structure between general practitioners and specialists affects either the health status of patients or their pharmacy costs. The more concentrated collaborative structure results in lower pharmacy costs, but not in higher patient.

The Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) continues to expand and now includes 434 accountable care organizations (ACOs) serving more than 7 million beneficiaries. During 2014, 86 of these ACOs earned over $300 million in shared savings payments by promoting higher-quality patient care at a lower cost.Whether organizational characteristics, regional cost of care, or experience in the MSSP are ...