This paper explores the nature of strategic goals underlying composite information systems (CIS) and ways to increase the likelihood of success. It studies a major regional hospital and its relationships with its physicians a s part of an actual case study for providing physicians and staff convenient interface to disparate hospital departments. This situation is a particularly appropriate CIS ...

The relationship between athletic identity, gender role orientation, and drinking behavior among college-aged women from the United States and Australia was explored in a sample of 301 female undergraduate students from the United States and Australia. Athletic identity refers to the extent to which individuals identify with an athletic role. Participants completed an anonymous, paper-and-penci...

This paper explores the impact of intercollegiate athletic performance on tuition rates. A number of recent studies have examined the advertising effect generated by participation in intercollegiate sports. These studies have attempted to ascertain whether athletic performance improves student quality, graduation rates, and state appropriations. Only one previous paper examines the impact of in...

CONTEXT Certified athletic trainers who serve as Approved Clinical Instructors (ACIs) in the collegiate setting are balancing various roles (eg, patient care and related administrative tasks, clinical education). Whether this balancing act is associated with role strain in athletic trainers has not been examined. OBJECTIVE To examine the degree of, and contributing factors (eg, socialization ...

CONTEXT Previous researchers have demonstrated that male and female athletes feel more comfortable with treatment by a same-sex athletic trainer for sex-specific injuries and conditions. OBJECTIVE To address football players' comfort with care provided by same-sex and opposite-sex athletic trainers for sex-specific and non-sex-specific injuries and conditions through the lens of role congruit...

Objective: To establish the intra-rater reliability of nine content-validated Technical Skill Assessment Instruments (TSAI) for the skills of athletic taping. Setting: University of Calgary. Subjects: Canadian Certified Athletic Therapists, CAT(C), with a mean ± SD of 9.6 ± 10.8 years as a CAT(C), 7.8 ± 10.9 years as a Supervisory Athletic Therapist, 8.5 ± 12.0 years teaching athletic taping sk...

It is standard practice in high school athletic programs for certified athletic trainers to evaluate and treat injured student athletes. In some cases, a trainer refers an athlete to a physician for definitive medical management. This study was conducted to determine the rate of agreement between athletic trainers and physicians regarding assessment of injuries in student athletes. All high sch...