Introduction: Ensuring maximum patient safety as well as a complete surgical experience is of utmost importance in training for plastic surgery. As plastic surgical training relies on resident participation in various procedures, we must guarantee adequate hands-on operative time while maintaining the best possible outcomes for the patient. The effect of resident involvement on the outcomes of ...

This paper deals with the occupational absorption of female immigrants from the former Soviet Union (now the CIS) into Israel’s labor market, and their participation in subsidized vocational training courses. About 43 percent of these immigrants had participated in such a course during their first five years in Israel. A calibration of a dynamic choice model in which immigrants’ decision regard...

Krasno and Green have argued that political advertising has no impact on voter turnout. We remain unconvinced by their evidence, given concerns about how they measure the advertising environment, how they measure advertising tone, their choice of modeling techniques and the generalizability of their findings. These differences aside, we strongly agree that political advertising does little to u...

This paper uses a natural experiment approach to identify the effects of an exogenous change in future pension benefits on workers’ training participation. We use unique matched survey and administrative data for male employees in the public sector in the Netherlands who were subject to a major pension reform in 2006. We compare training participation of workers who were born in 1949 and remain...

This commentary talks about patient involvement in one of the biggest EU projects to date-U-BIOPRED. It describes how people and carers of people with asthma have been able to develop and drive their input and have their voice heard among the >200 healthcare professional project members. Five key principles for the success of the patient involvement group are presented: involve early, involve d...

INTRODUCTION Patient and public involvement in healthcare planning, service development and health-related research has received significant attention. However, evidence about the role of patient involvement in quality improvement work is more limited. We aimed to characterize patient involvement in three improvement projects and to identify strengths and weaknesses of contrasting approaches. ...

a survey-descriptive research methodology conducted 839 dehyaries, consisted the statistical population of the study. a number of 149 dehyaries were selected as sample using a multi-stage sampling technique. the questionnaire was approved to be both valid and reliable. to identify factors affect success of dehyaries, discriminate analysis was applied. the results revealed that organizational co...

OBJECTIVE To review published studies to assess the effects of supervisor training on the mental health of subordinate workers, and thereby develop an evidence-based guideline for supervisor training in promoting workers' mental health. METHOD Seven studies that assessed the effect of supervisor training, whose outcomes included psychological stress responses of (subordinate) employees, were ...

in the family, women can benefit from the newest information and knowledge on various life subjects and use them to train other members of the family; they can also use the knowledge to replce new and optimal beliefs with the false ones thereby oncreasing the soci-cultural level of the family more than before. in this study, family economic efficiency including women's participation in hou...