BACKGROUND Breast cancer is uncommon in young women and correlates with a less favourable prognosis; still it is the most frequent cancer in women under 40, accounting for 30-40% of all incident female cancer. The aim of this study was to study prognosis in young women, quantifying how much stage at diagnosis and management on the one hand, and tumour biology on the other; each contribute to th...

A consecutive series of 52 acetabular revisions was evaluated retrospectively. Inclusion criteria for all patients were at least one former exchange of the acetabular component. Reconstruction was performed with reliable techniques and implants other than extensively porous coated device (e.g. tantalum). The mean follow up was 5.63 (0.01-14.05) years. Cumulative survival at 14.05 years with rem...

The recent governance and anticorruption initiative of the World Bank1 (the Bank) has come under intense fire from developing nations and some corners of Europe. There is little disagreement that corruption and poor governance in developing nations represent substantial impediments to sustainable growth. The issue is whether the Bank’s continuing efforts to root out corruption and promote good ...

BACKGROUND Clinical governance has been introduced into health care in the United Kingdom as a means to improve quality. At present there is no legal duty for commercial occupational providers to implement this model. AIM This preliminary study examined how commercial occupational health providers had implemented clinical governance. METHODS The senior clinical manager of commercial occupat...

In this paper, we provide new and complementing international evidence on the relation between cash holdings, corporate governance, and firm value. Our sample consists of a crosssection of 1,875 firms from 46 countries in 2007. We construct eight different measures of firm-level corporate governance based on 64 individual governance attributes provided by Governance Metrics International (GMI)....

In this paper, we are interested in assessing the Greek protected areas’ (PAs) operation, and particular, to what extent stakeholders engaged their management consider that “good environmental governance” criteria met. Through use of Q-methodology, find that, despite very different circumstances each PA, stakeholders’ views cluster around four distinctive main perspectives (or factors). Further...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Anticoagulant-associated intracranial hemorrhage (aaICH) presents with larger hematoma volumes, higher risk of hematoma expansion, and worse outcome than spontaneous intracranial hemorrhage. Prothrombin complex concentrates (PCCs) are indicated for urgent reversal of anticoagulation after aaICH. Given the lack of randomized controlled trial evidence of efficacy, and the p...

Despite recognition of the benefits of relational governance in inter-organizational exchanges, factors that may erode its value have received little examination. We extend the literature by asking whether self-interested opportunities and long-standing ties erode the positive association between relational governance and performance. Consistent with transaction cost and moral hazard logics, ex...

This paper analyses the corporate governance mechanisms of a sample of companies that have been acquired by friendly take-over and those of a matching control sample that have not. It also uses a holdout sample to assess the model’s ability to correctly classify take-over candidates. The results show that the targets were poor performers and that there are significant governance differences bet...