The Francis report reflects the need for students, like all members of the healthcare team, “to make the protection of patients their priority.” 2 Since 2008, when the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Open School opened its virtual doors, more than 150 000 students and faculty across the world have accepted this call. The school provides online courses in quality improvement, patient ...

“Despite the importance that reconnaissance and security operations play in setting the conditions necessary for tactical and operational success, the Army’s brigade combat teams struggle to effectively employ their organic cavalry squadron. ... Brigade commanders and their staffs lack leader development and training to plan and execute [reconnaissance and security] missions. Brigade staffs ide...

The role of faculty staffs is very important to producing scholars and economy building in any country. The faculty staff’s satisfaction, commitment and performance are the pillars to investigate in education sector of India, especially in private sector universities. This study is performed in India to examine the association of satisfaction with commitment and performance, and commitment asso...

Army sustainment formations are responsible for ensuring freedom of maneuver, extending operational reach, and prolonging endurance for movement and maneuver forces. For ground operations, the ability to accomplish these sustainment tasks often depends on maintaining lines of communication (LOCs) that span hundreds of miles. Maintaining open LOCs is a multifunctional problem set that the staffs...

We analyse a huge and very precise trace of contact data collected during 6 months on the entire population of a rehabilitation hospital. We investigate the graph structure of the average daily contact network. Our main results are to unveil striking properties of this structure in the considered hospital, and to present a methodology that can be used for analysing any dynamic complex network w...

This paper discusses ways in which simulations can support commanders and staffs in command posts of the future. The paper discusses uses for simulations in decision support. The importance of simulation technologies in the (military) operational context is described. The paper describes how simulations can be integrated into command posts of the future to assist in the conduct of planning, reh...