Marc Lambrecht Faculty of Business and Economics, Research Center for Operations Management, K.U.Leuven, Belgium [email protected] The health care sector is a fast-growing segment of GNP in almost every economy. No wonder that we witnessed a tremendous increase in research to improve both medical practice and management practice. Patient flow management is an example of such a man...

AIMS The comprehensive review sought to examine the impact of Critical Care Nurse Practitioner models, roles, activities and outcomes. METHOD The Medical Literature Analyses and Retrieval (MEDLINE), The Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL); PubMED; PROQUEST; ScienceDirect; and the Cochrane database were accessed for the review. Alternative search engines were also...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND At the time of this study (2009) the role of the nurse practitioner was new to the province of British Columbia. The provincial government gave the responsibility for implementing the role to health authorities. Managers of health authorities, many of whom were unfamiliar with the role, were responsible for identifying the need for the NP role, determining how the NP wo...

OBJECTIVE To compare usage patterns and outcomes of a nurse practitioner-staffed medical ICU and a resident-staffed physician medical ICU. DESIGN Retrospective chart review of 1,157 medical ICU admissions from March 2012 to February 2013. SETTING Large urban academic university hospital. SUBJECTS One thousand one hundred fifty-seven consecutive medical ICU admissions including 221 nurse p...

OBJECTIVES This study sought to assess the ability of medical and nurse practitioner students to use MEDLINE to obtain evidence for answering clinical questions and to identify factors associated with the successful answering of questions. METHODS A convenience sample of medical and nurse practitioner students was recruited. After completing instruments measuring demographic variables, comput...

Collaboration, by definition, is a joint and cooperative enterprise that integrates the individual perspectives and expertise of various team members. Some commonly identified themes of collaborative relationships include collegiality, teamwork, open communication, recognition of one another’s expertise, and a strong level of trust and respect. However, the development of an individual collabor...

BACKGROUND GPs often perceive home-visit requests as a time-consuming aspect of general practice. The new general medical services contract provides for practices to be relieved of responsibility for home-visits, although there is no model for the transfer of care. One such model could be to employ nurse practitioners to manage such requests. Nurse practitioners can effectively substitute for G...

This paper presents a novel interpretation of the fact that high nominal interest rates accompany low levels of real GNP. It constructs a model in which money and bonds are both held as a result of legal restrictions on the banking system. Open market operations may increase the equilibrium rate of interest and raise the cost of credit. This increase in the cost of credit causes firms to write ...

FIROUGHOUT 1989, popular wisdom held that the U.S. monetary authority was faced with a daunting policy task: it should not permit too much money growth and cause prices to rise too rapidly, but it should not allow too little money growth and cause the economy to tip into recession as real output would fall. Sympathy for monetary policymakers, however, is not necessarily widespread among economi...

Neither democracy nor globalization alone can explain the doubling of the peacetime public share in many Western countries between World Wars I and II. Here we examine two other explanations that are consistent with the timing of the observed changes, namely, (1) a shift in the demand for public goods and (2) the effect of war on the willingness to share. We first model each of these approaches...