Introduction This paper discusses the education, employment and involvement in research of dental hygienists and aims to appraise the reader of developments in these areas. However, at the outset it must be recognised that the education and employment of dental hygienists is by no means universal. Before considering their growing involvement in research, it is therefore worthwhile to consider t...

How to measure a test process is a required competence for an effective software test manager. Effective test process measurement is useful for designing and evaluating a cost-effective test strategy. Although existing research has addressed many metrics for those purposes, most metrics are used independently. This paper summarizes a test process measurement project of the IBM Electronic Commer...

INTRODUCTION: Secondary lymphedema is a chronic and debilitating complication of breast cancer therapy affecting more than one in five breast cancer survivors.1 In this patient population, patient-reported outcomes may be more important in predicting long-term health-related quality of life (HRQoL) than clinician measured outcomes.2 Cost-effectiveness analysis can be used to compare different t...

Objective : comparative pharmacoeconomic analysis of iron preparations for intravenous infusion in the treatment deficiency anemia (IDA) within concept patient blood management program. Material and methods . A retrospective study was carried out using efficiency, costs costeffectiveness. Comparison oligoisomaltose [III] (Monofer) carboxymaltose (Ferinject®) out. Results. In general, Monofer Fe...

The University for Development Studies is a public university in Ghana that owns and manages fleet of vehicles. university, however, faces numerous challenges terms maintaining its Reports from the various campuses indicate most vehicles broke down were at mechanic shops needed urgent attention. In order to propose solutions university's problems, study sought discover causes vehicles' frequent...

Current National Health Service (NHS) policy in the United Kingdom recommends that services should be provided closer to the patient [1] as there are many anticipated benefits in shifting the balance of care away from a central hub to delivering services near to patients’ homes. In implementing this policy, ‘nurseled’ initiatives have often been adopted for a variety of reasons, such as the cap...

International emissions trading is widely seen as an indispensable policy pillar of climate change mitigation (Stern, 2007). This article analyzes five different types of trading architectures, classified into two top-down (UNFCCC driven) and three bottom-up (driven by individual countries or regions) approaches. The two types of approaches are characterized by a trade-off between environmental...

estimates of lower urinary tract symptoms, overactive bladder, urinary incontinence and bladder outlet obstruction. BJU Int 2011; 108: 1132–8 11 Grimes CE, Henry JA, Maraka J, Mkandawire NC, Cotton M. Costeffectiveness of surgery in lowand middle-income countries: a systematic review. World J Surg 2014; 38: 252–63 12 Gosselin RA, Thind A, Bellardinelli A. Cost/DALY Averted in a small hospital i...