OBJECTIVES To evaluate the implementation of a mind-body program for surgical patients in a community hospital, assessing patient participation, patient perception, and program impact on anxiety, pain, and quality of sleep during the perioperative period. METHODS Two hundred thirty patients having total hip replacement, total knee replacement, hysterectomy, or colectomy participated in this i...

Information Technology and Infrastructure Library implementation is not well spelled out in documentation and therefore can be very challenging. In this study, a literature review is conducted to identify critical success factors (CSFs) for ITIL implementation. The CSFs are then used in an improved solution to the decision problem using Analytical Hierarchy Process. In order to validate the pro...

have spent fortunes on ERP software and implementation only to find that business performance has not improved at all. These large investments and negative ROIs have created a whirlpool of controversy, rampant company politics and even a number of lawsuits. The trade press has reported many negative ERP stories, and even annual reports have pointed the finger at ERP for lower-than-expected earn...

When implementing an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, top management commonly faces an unwanted attitude from potential users ± for one reason or another, they resist the implementation process. Top management should, therefore, proactively deal with this problem instead of reactively confronting it. In this paper, I describe an integrated, processoriented approach for facing the comp...

The Blueprints for Violence Prevention initiative, developed by the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence at the University of Colorado–Boulder and sup­ ported by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, is a leader in identifying effective violence prevention and drug prevention programs that have been evaluated in rigorous, controlled tri­ als. However, the identif...

Despite modern technologies, such as immunophenotyping and molecular probing, cytomorphologic examination of stained peripheral blood smears by microscopy remains the mainstay of diagnosis in a large variety of diseases. This holds true especially in underdeveloped or rural areas where profound expertise and equipment are not easily available. Although communication technologies have been drama...

The successful initiation and execution of a virtual team is gaining increasing attention in the design and construction community. From opportunities to integrate international and multidisciplinary teams to the opportunity to leverage the best resources in an organization on a given project, virtual teams can transform the concept of project planning and execution. However, potential barriers...