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Outpatient services and primary care: scoping review, substudies and international comparisons
Health Services and Delivery Research, 2016 Aim: This study updates a previous scoping review published by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) in 2006 (Roland M, McDonald R, Sibbald B.
Eleanor Winpenny +7 more
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BRICS COUNTRIES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MODERN SYSTEM OF WORLD ECONOMY – A RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS [PDF]
Proceedings on Engineering Sciences, 2023 The new polycentric format of the interstate association, which is BRICS, serves as the centre of gravity for the dynamically developing world economies.
Maria V. Petrovskaya +1 more
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Energies, 2021 The main objective of this article is to analyze the use of modern information technologies, referring to the example of smartphones, paying particular attention to selected cultural aspects of the phenomena that appear to play an important role in ...
Witold Chmielarz +3 more
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International Sports League Comparisons [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011 Comparisons between European and North American sports leagues have occurred over the years. In this paper, we attempt to bring these comparisons down to the essential elements – what has come to be called Rottenberg’s (1956) invariance principle and theoretical insights into attempts to alter competitive balance using revenue sharing, talent drafts ...
Dietl, Helmut +2 more
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The effects of mergers: an international comparison [PDF]
International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2003 Abstract This paper analyzes the effects of mergers around the world over the past 15 years. We utilize a large panel of data on mergers to test several hypotheses about mergers. The effects of the mergers are examined by comparing the performance of the merging firms with control groups of nonmerging firms.
Klaus Gugler +3 more
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Overcoming Equity-Related Challenges for the Education and Training Systems of Europe
Education Sciences, 2020 This paper is a discussion of the challenges to equity faced by the education and training systems of the 28 EU countries (at time of writing), based on secondary sources and official reports by individual countries.
Stephen Gorard
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International Journal of Integrated Care, 2015 Background: To address the challenges of caring for a growing number of older people with a mix of both health problems and functional impairment, programmes in different countries have different approaches to integrating health and social service ...
Walter P Wodchis +3 more
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Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2021 Introduction: Measuring quality of life (QoL) is essential to understand how clients perceive their care. In practice, many instruments are in place to identify mental health diagnoses and measure treatment outcomes, but there are fewer standardized ...
Johanna de Almeida Mello +10 more
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Frontiers in Education, 2023 We examined the discussion processes through which two independent consensus-based review panels detected errors in the same sample of items from an international test translated from English to Chinese. The discussion processes were defined according to
Xueyu Zhao, Guillermo Solano-Flores
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Scale and quality in Nordic hospitals
Nordic Journal of Health Economics, 2018 Empirical analysis of hospitals in production economics often find little or no evidence of scale economies and quite small optimal sizes. Medical literature on the other hand provides evidence of better results for hospitals with a large volume of ...
Sverre A.C. Kittelsen +4 more
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