In a longitudinal study of biomarker data collected during a hospital stay, observations may be missing due to administrative reasons, the death of the subject or the subject's discharge from the hospital, resulting in non-ignorable missing data. Standard likelihood-based methods for the...

The rising cost of quality healthcare is becoming an increasing concern. A significant part of healthcare cost is the pharmaceutical supply component. Improving healthcare supply chains is critical not only because of the financial magnitude but also because it impacts so many people. Efforts...

Assessing value of IT infrastructure investments has been both difficult and ambiguous. This research develops and tests a conceptual framework to understand the productivity process. A lagged and recursive framework is used to trace the relationship between IT infrastructure investments,...

Arbeitspapier - Forschungszentrum Familienbewusste Personalpolitik; 2/2006