BACKGROUND General practitioners (GPs) have to match patients' demands with the mix of their practice staff's competencies. However, apart from some general principles, there is little guidance on recruiting new staff. The purpose of this study was to develop and test a method which would allow GPs or practice managers to perform a skill mix analysis which would take into account developments i...

A wireless ad hoc network is subject to various security attacks including traffic analysis. In this paper, we explore the approach of preventing traffic analysis through hiding the source and destination of packets. We argue that Chaum’s mix method [1] and proposed security schemas (IPSec [2], Onion Routing [3], Non Disclosure Method [4]) cannot adapt to the dynamic changes of topology in wire...

BACKGROUND The hospital standardized mortality ratio (HSMR) is developed to evaluate and improve hospital quality. Different methods can be used to standardize the hospital mortality ratio. Our aim was to assess the validity and applicability of directly and indirectly standardized hospital mortality ratios. METHODS Retrospective scenario analysis using routinely collected hospital data to co...

BACKGROUND: The study is of practical importance for policy makers and family planning (FP) program managers as the profile FP method-mix with a shift from mechanical method intrauterine devices (IUD) to hormonal methods such oral contraceptives (OCs) injectables predicts critical situation maternal child health reflects shortcomings in service delivery program. AIM: purpose current was identif...

introduction:the prevalence of atopic diseases has increased in recent decades dramatically. the most common aeroallergens in northeastern iran have not been fully defined. define the most common aeroallergens in allergic patients based on the skin prick test (spt) was aimed in this investigation.materials and methods:this cross-sectional study enrolled 1,006 allergic patients (aged 1–86 years)...

We describe a design for a reputation system that increases the reliability and thus efficiency of remailer services. Our reputation system uses a MIX-net in which MIXes give receipts for intermediate messages. Together with a set of witnesses, these receipts allow senders to verify the correctness of each MIX and prove misbehavior to the witnesses. We suggest a simple model and metric for eval...