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A day with Peter F. Drucker, volume V, tape 1

Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand) - 1988

During Peter Drucker's talk entitled "The Organization in Transition – Are the Traditional Functions Obsolete?" he discusses functions that remain centers of specialized knowledge and training, but cease to constitute the organizational base of the work itself. During his lecture, he talks...

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An Empirical Investigation of Why Doctors Migrate and Women Fail to Go for Screening.

Okeke, Edward Nwabugwu - 2009

foreign stock of Ghanaian physicians had reduced by between 10 and 13 percent and attribute this directly to the eﬀect of the …

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Hippocratic PostgreSQL

Padma, J; Silva, Yasin; Arshad, Mohamed; Aref, Walid - 2009

Privacy preservation has become an important requirement in information systems that deal with personal data. In many cases this requirement is imposed by laws that recognize the right of data owners to control whom their information is shared with and the purposes for which it can be shared....

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Lean indicators in hospital/healthcare settings and the role of leadership in the diffusion of performance improvement strategies

Ezzeddine, Ahmad M - 2006

initiative at a hospital/health care setting, (2) Examine the role of leadership in the diffusion and creation of strategic …

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A new look at hospital cost function estimation

Velagapudi, Kalyani R Mandadi - 1995

The production of hospital care can be viewed as a two-tiered production process. At the first tier, intermediate services are produced which are used in the production of final services, which comprise the second tier of production. Intermediate services are not always produced internally. Some...

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Did Michigan's policies reduce the daily cost of drug therapy for its dual eligible beneficiaries?

Kibicho, Jennifer Waruguru - 2007

Background . Michigan Medicaid outpatient prescription drug program implemented the following four policies to address rising expenditures considered "out of control": (1) February 2002: Preferred Drug List (PDL); (2) February 2003: Joint Purchasing Arrangement (JPA); (3) November 2003: Maximum...

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Analysis of corporate acquisitions by medical device manufacturers

DeGraaff, Robert A - 2006

This doctoral thesis draws on the financial economics, strategic management, product innovation, and health technology …

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Price regulation, capital market imperfections, and strategic R&D investment behavior in the pharmaceutical industry: Consequences for innovation

Vernon, John Andrew - 2003

The research in this thesis focuses on the pharmaceutical R&D investment decision. The two primary hypotheses I test are that: (1) capital market imperfections in the market for pharmaceutical R&D finance impart a lower cost of capital to internal funds relative to external debt and equity, and...

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Cross-country generalizability of quality-of-lifescores in atopic dermatitis

Rencz, Fanni - 2019

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Time Preference and Its Relationship with Age, Health, and Longevity Expectations

Chao, Li-wei; Szrek, Helena; Pereira, Nuno Sousa; … - 2007

Although theories in both evolutionary biology and economics predict that an individual’s health should be associated … collecting detailed measures of health, time preference, and expected longevity on a sample of individuals in townships around … preference and health, in an area of the world with high mortality and morbidity. Interestingly, we find that both physical …

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