The need to improve patient care by coordinating the activities of various health care providers has become a topic of increasing interest in the health care community.1–6 Practitioners from each discipline can use their specialized training and skills to make significant contributions to patient care. Pharmacists, for example, can provide the team with expertise needed to improve a patient’s d...

In this paper, I emphasise that the main prediction of the theoretical literature on the firm as an incentive structure is that different organisations (i.e. firms with different allocations of property rights) are characterised by different levels of social transaction costs, hence by different levels of economic inefficiency. I then propose a test of this prediction focusing on the banking in...

OBJECTIVE This study investigated the cost-effectiveness of installing sidewalks to increase levels of transport-walking. METHODS Secondary analysis using logistic regression established the association of sidewalks with transport-walking using two transport-walking thresholds of 150 and 60 min/week using Western Australian data (n=1394) from 1995 to 2000. Minimum, moderate and maximum interv...

This research study explores the Cost efficiency of Indian banking sector by employing Stochastic Frontier Approach (SFA). This paper empirically evaluated the impact of Information Technology (IT) on the Cost efficiency of the Indian banks .The present study is based on panel data over the period of 2009-2013. For this paper 77 banks of India are being considered. This paper identifies the ave...

Monograph Article dissertation (summary + original articles) Department Laboratory Field of research Opponent(s) Supervisor (Instructor) Abstract X The new re-regulated markets for electricity, stricter environmental policies and regulations, especially regarding greenhouse gases, form a new operating environment for energy systems. The new environment requires systems that are cost-efficient a...

This paper addresses reputation and familiarity as determinants of trust in online banking and examines the effects of experience as a moderator in a Latin American context. The study uses data from two countries, Chile and Bolivia that represent the highest and lowest Internet penetration in the region. The effects of reputation and familiarity on trust are supported. However, these relationsh...