background: with regard to novel plans in the health sector, including “health sector evolution” and changes of hospitals’ issues, change and innovation skills are considered essential for hospital administrators. this study aimed to determine the relationship between management style and change and innovation skills of administrators in teaching hospitals of shiraz university of medical scienc...

Because the field of statistics has become so important in medicine, it is well worth the time of a physician in nuclear medicine to become acquainted with the lan guage of statistics, the elementary concepts, and a few of the more commonly used procedures. For this purpose we are presenting these essentials in a series of six short, nontechnical papers. Obviously, what can be accom plished in ...

Materials and methods We conducted a retrospective case study using two sources: 1) the Ontario Coroner’s database from 20032011; and 2) unpublished death reports between 1986 and 2000 gathered by Anaphylaxis Canada. Outcomes of interest included type of allergen, nature of reaction and treatment. Analyses included descriptive statistics and frequency analysis (quantitative data) and grounded t...

Psychometric aspects of the Dissociative Experiences Scale-II were studied with 308 American community college students. The overall DES mean was 21.70. Item-corrected correlations ranged from .30 to .62. The scale’s Cronbach Alpha was .92. There were no significant correlations between DES scores and sex or religiosity. Age was negatively and significantly correlated to DES scores (r = –.24). ...

Not only is job satisfaction important per se, but, according to its effect upon other aspects of career perspective, it also possesses investing value. As a matter of fact, through increase in job satisfaction, other aspects of job perspectives such as organizational commitment, job involvement and organizational atmosphere are improved. Job satisfaction is included among important factors in ...

Descriptive statistics include measures of central tendency and variability. Measures of central tendency include mean, median, and mode. The mean is the arithmetic average of data from interval or ratio scales. The median reflects the 50th percentile score. The mode is the most frequently occurring value of a data distribution. Measures of variability include range, interquartile range, standa...