background: tube feeding is used for patients, who are not able to eat orally but their digestive system can digest food. this method is safe and economical for patients, maintains the functions of the digestive system and reduces the risk of infection and sepsis. however, incorrect administration of this method of feeding results in problems such as aspiration pneumonia, infection, diarrhea, n...

many organizations use information technology (it) to improve their performance in the business and operations. but, most of the it projects suffer from a high risk of failure when implemented. recently, many studies have been attended on the concept of critical success factors (csfs) in order to affect the rate of success, but a little effort has been focused on developing strong models to fac...

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) suggests that primary care-public health integration can improve health outcomes for vulnerable patients, but the extent to which formal linkages may enhance patients' use of community resources, or the factors that may influence providers to encourage their patients to use these resources, remain unclear. We conducted baseline assessments in 2014-2015 with 149 o...

This article analyses the economic, political, and institutional antecedents performance effects of adoption shared Senior Management Teams (SMTs)—a management innovation (MI) that occurs when a team senior managers oversees two or more public organizations. Findings from statistical analysis 201 English local governments interviews with organizational leaders reveal SMTs are adopted to develop...

Outcomes of older adults referred for care management and mental health services through the senior reach gatekeeper model of case finding were examined in this study and compared with the Spokane gatekeeper model Colorado Senior Reach and the Mid-Kansas Senior Outreach (MKSO) programs are the two Senior Reach Gatekeeper programs modeled after the Spokane program, employing the same community e...

Fuzzy Logic is one of the concepts that has created different scientific attitudes by entering into various professional fields nowadays and in some cases has made remarkable effects on the results of the practical researches. However, the existence of stochastic and uncertain situations in risk and accident field, affects the possibility of the forecasting and preventing the occurrence of the ...