نتایج جستجو برای: participation century

تعداد نتایج: 210655  

2014
Corina W Ramers-Verhoeven Francesco Perrone Kathy Oliver

A qualitative survey was carried out in six countries to gather insights into potential barriers to patient participation in cancer clinical trials (CTs) to help stakeholders develop strategies to improve recruitment and participation. While the research was exploratory in nature, the findings highlight the critical role that doctors play in terms of CTs participation. The research also indicat...

Journal: :GM crops & food 2013
Monica Racovita Dennis Ndolo Obonyo Roshan Abdallah Robert Anguzu Gratian Bamwenda Andrew Kiggundu Harrison Maganga Nancy Muchiri Chinyere Nzeduru Jane Otadoh Anwar Rumjaun Iro Suleiman Manjusha Sunil Mark Tepfer Samuel Timpo Wynand van der Walt Chantal Kaboré-Zoungrana Lilian Nfor Wendy Craig

In tackling agricultural challenges, policy-makers in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have increasingly considered genetically modified (GM) crops as a potential tool to increase productivity and to improve product quality. Yet, as elsewhere in the world, the adoption of GM crops in SSA has been marked by controversy, encompassing not only the potential risks to animal and human health, and to the env...

Journal: :The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science 2013
Liam Ennis Til Wykes

BACKGROUND It is deemed good practice to involve patients routinely in research but no study has investigated the practical benefits, particularly to successful recruitment. AIMS To identify whether patient involvement is associated with study success. METHOD All studies listed on the Mental Health Research Network (MHRN) portfolio database (n = 374) were interrogated using logistic regress...

2016
Leo H Visser Marco A Heerings Peter J Jongen Karin van der Hiele

BACKGROUND The adherence to treatment with injectable disease-modifying drugs (DMDs) in multiple sclerosis (MS) may benefit from adequate information provision and management of expectations. The communication between patients and physicians is very important in this respect. The current study investigated the perspectives and experiences of the MS patients and neurologists concerning the choic...

2016
Jenny Chen Steve Kempton Venkat Rao

RESULTS: Fifty-five participants (31 patients and 24 parents) completed all questionnaires, 98.2% preferred active involvement in therapeutic decision-making. The SDM-Q-9 scores, assessed by patients and physicians, were acceptable (mean 68 out of 100). However, the independently assessed OPTION-5 scores were significantly lower (mean 31 out of 100). In the consultations, physicians rarely aske...

2010
Justin Valasek

Some US states have introduced measures to increase voter participation. I develop a formal model of elections to study how these measures affect political outcomes. I find that at high enough levels, measures to increase turnout lead to candidates converging at the median voter’s ideal point, as candidates switch from choosing policies that motivate their partisan base to competing over centri...

Journal: :Social security bulletin 2009
Barbara A Butrica Howard M Iams Karen E Smith Eric J Toder

This article uses a microsimulation model to estimate how freezing all remaining private-sector and one-third of all public-sector defined benefit (DB) pension plans over the next 5 years would affect retirement incomes of baby boomers. If frozen plans were supplemented with new or enhanced defined contribution (DC) retirement plans, there would be more losers than winners, and average family i...

2015
Michael Wolffsohn

Self-criticism of physicians and patient participation are the pillars of modern medical ethics and medical programmes. Patients expect risk minimisation from physicians, mostly without realising how much they could actively do themselves in this respect. But what about the willingness of German people to take risks, how high is it really at present? Direct empirical data are not available, but...

Journal: :Applied ergonomics 2017
J Mackrill P Marshall S R Payne E Dimitrokali R Cain

Involving users through participation in healthcare service and environment design is growing. Existing approaches and toolkits for practitioners and researchers are often paper based involving workshops and other more traditional design approaches such as paper prototyping. The advent of digital technology provides the opportunity to explore new platforms for user participation. This paper pre...

Journal: :IJWBC 2005
Ana Cristina Bicharra Garcia Fernando Bicharra Pinto Inhaúma Neves Ferraz

Democracy originated in Greece and has been an ideal way of citizenry coexistence for centuries. History tellers say that Athens, the world’s first democracy, was an extremely high performing organization due to the high level of commitment and engagement of the people. The three pillars of democracy (representation, participation, and deliberation) were then feasible. When a population grows i...

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