Executive Overview The term evidence-based management (EBMgt) is relatively new, though the idea of using research evidence to help make managerial decisions is not. In this paper we identify and clarify a number of common misconceptions about EBMgt. Rather than a single rigid method, EBMgt is a family of approaches that support decision making. It is something done by practitioners, not schola...

Title: A systematic review of adherence in Indigenous Australians: an opportunity to improve chronic condition management Authors: Gregory Samuel ([email protected]) Rianna DiBartolo-Cordovano ([email protected]) Insiya Taj ([email protected]) Audrey Merriam ([email protected]) Jean Lopez ([email protected]) Caroline Torres ([email protected])...

The upward trend in breast cancer globally and in India has become a matter of great concern. Breast cancer is the most common malignancy among women globally. The objective of the authors’ study was to explore the various risk factors of breast cancer in among women in an Indian context. A search was performed using the search engine Pubmed during years 2005-2011 using key words risk factor an...

URINARY INCONTINENCE MANAGEMENT: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS Sakineh Hajebrahimi, Alireza Mahboub-Ahari, Neda Kabiri, Fariba Pashazadeh. Department of Urology, Iranian Evidence-Based Medicine Center of Excellence(RCEBM), Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; Iranian Center of Excellence in Health Management, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; Ph.D. Stu...

BACKGROUND Falls are a major health problem for older adults with significant physical and psychological consequences. A first step of successful fall prevention is to identify those at risk of falling. Recent advancement in sensing technology offers the possibility of objective, low-cost and easy-to-implement fall risk assessment. The objective of this systematic review is to assess the curren...

Objective To evaluate the evidence on comparisons of established cardiovascular risk prediction models and to collect comparative information on their relative prognostic performance. Design Systematic review of comparative predictive model studies. Data sources Medline and screening of citations and references. Study selection Studies examining the relative prognostic performance of at least t...

Using the restrictions implied by the heteroskedasticity of stock returns, we identify four factors in the U.S. industry returns. The first correlates highly with the market portfolio; the second is a portfolio of stocks that produce investment goods minus stocks that produce consumption goods; the third differentiates between cyclical and noncyclical stocks. The fourth, a portfolio of industri...

In this paper we propose a new approach to estimating systematic risk (the beta of an asset). The proposed method is based on a wavelet multiscaling approach that decomposes a given time series on a scale-by-scale basis. The empirical results from different economies show that the relationship between the return of a portfolio and its beta becomes stronger as the wavelet scale increases. Theref...

In this paper we propose a new approach to estimating the systematic risk (the beta of an asset) in a capital asset pricing model (CAPM). The proposed method is based on a wavelet multiscaling approach that decomposes a given time series on a scale-by-scale basis. At each scale, the wavelet variance of the market return and the wavelet covariance between the market return and a portfolio are ca...