Gerard Vaughan expects to save pounds 30m by streamlining NHS administration, but where did that figure come from--thin air perhaps? Nick Davidson has been doing some calculations and reckons that to save anything like that amount, many heads must roll. But at what point does a reduction in administrative costs ...

"Increased longevity is one alternative to lives saved as a measure of benefits derived from large-scale risk-reduction programs that demand resources of the total population. This measure, for several categories of risk, is presented in the context of the risks prevalent to society. Some estimates of the theoretical benefits due ...

An armed robbery alarm system was implemented in 48 different stores in two separate geographical areas for 6 months and 12 months, respectively. The alarms were placed in the two separate areas at different times and all alarms were eventually removed. Thus, multiple baseline and reversal strategies were used to ...

The implementation of a unit dose program throughout a hospital is possible without confronting many problems if thorough planning has been done before the program is started. The planning can be accomplished by the pharmacy department without the extensive use of such groups as committees of representatives from nursing and ...

With a relatively small amount of money and a lot of ingenuity, an innovative engineering team developed a successful pilot program that resulted in substantial energy and dollar savings. Using commercially available component parts, the team designed a preventive maintenance and energy-saving microprocessor system that is especially geared toward the ...

Severe angina may lead to complete invalidism, with reliance on social security payments and accumulated savings. The average cost of this situation to the patient is $4-6000 pa and to the State $3-4000 pa. Reputedly expensive cardiac operations are cheaper, at under $2000, than unoperated invalidism, and thus rapidly repay ...

A national random sample of 1,017 new-car buyers was surveyed. The respondents indicated a clear preference for more, automatic crash protection rather than for protection that must be activated by those to be protected. Respondents were willing to add an average of $12 to their monthly car payments, if the ...

ABC inventory analysis and the economic order quantity (EOQ) concept were studied as alternatives to the cyclical ordering system used by the pharmacy in a 558-bed general hospital. The inventory was divided into A, B or C groups according to the annual dollar value of the items. Two samples were ...

Color pictorial slides are important for the learning process. They present a method which allows easy recognition of the subject without any effort to understand and appreciate it. However, the main purpose of this article is to describe a technique for the production of Diazochrome film for titles, charts, graphs, ...

Founded by Gerald Durrell in 1963, the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust is committed to saving endangered species from around the world. On these pages the reader can find out about the conservation programme. The site offers a series of fact sheets on the mammals, birds, amphibians and reptiles that the ...

In this lesson, students will come to understand the environmental impacts of habitat loss and fragmentation on wildlife and strategies for saving and restoring habitat. Students will choose an animal native to Maryland and research how populations of that animal might be affected by land use changes over the past ...

This resource introduces younger students to the wildlife and ecology of the Galapagos Islands. By clicking on links incorporated into an interactive image of a tortoise, they can learn about where the islands are, their volcanic origins, and how they became populated with plants and animals. There are also pages ...

Mice injected bitemporally with puromycin 5 hours before training learned to escape or to avoid shock by choosing the correct limb of a Y-maze. When retested 15 minutes after training they had normal retention. In the ensuing 2(3/4) hours the animals injected with puromycin, unlike the controls, showed a progressive ...