Productivity management is a major step in analyzing and documenting our professional tasks. Defining ratios, measuring, and evaluating are the first steps in accounting to consumers, employees, government bodies, and ourselves for our resources and services. Self-evaluation with empirical productivity data can provide the key information necessary for growth and ...

The extent to which a computer can be effectively employed in a veterinary practice depends to a large extent upon the size of the practice. Estimating defensible money investment in hardware and software prior to purchase is typically problematic because of the assumptions entailed in gauging potential return on capital. ...

While not an exact science, the development, installation and use of reasonable standards can be developed from an historical perspective on the quantity and quality of work produced, to allow the manager to measure the effects of changes on departmental productivity. Those seeking to develop and install standards in the ...

Productivity, especially labor productivity, is an important component of the information needed by healthcare managers to set goals, make decisions, and act. To measure productivity, standards must be established and performance determined. A basic problem with productivity monitoring has been that standards have been perceived as absolute and short term. ...

Over the past forty-five years, there has been a progressive refinement of the standards of practice of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). The need to review contemporary practice patterns to maintain and further improve those standards is discussed. In this context, the respective roles of medical audits and surveys of practice are ...

An assessment of the prototype Olympus Flexible Cystoscope in routine urological practice is presented. The results show that the instrument compares favourably in all respects with standard rigid equipment and has the advantage that cystoscopy can be performed supine and under local anaesthesia with ease. Biopsies may be taken; small ...

A Mayfield neurosurgical headrest positioned at the end of a standard operating room table may be utilized to achieve the prone positioning necessary to perform certain types of ophthalmic procedures, such as the unfolding of the inverted flap of a giant retinal break. We describe the technique of employing this ...

Many professionals prefer to work in nonprofit organizations, rather than in either for-profit or bureaucratic organizations. This preference suggests that nonprofits may be successful in reducing the tension between professional principles and institutional requirements. Professionals in for-profit organizations must submit to the control of a manager who is motivated to ...

Productivity measurement and management is introduced as a means of maximizing profits under prospective payment. Methodologies are developed for productivity standards using the workload recording system and engineered time standards. These methodologies can be used to improve labor resource budgeting, scheduling, and internal labor reallocation; project the impact of new ...

Unfortunately, there are no commonly accepted standards to guide personnel managers in evaluating HRIS (human resources information system) software. Until such standards developed, the advice offered here by author Sidney H. Simon (manager of personnel information systems and benefits administration of Bechtel Power Corporation) will stand the personnel manager in ...

Recent interest in transperitoneal live donor nephrectomy prompted us to review our experience with 104 live donor nephrectomies performed through a standard flank extraperitoneal approach. There were no deaths and 14.4 per cent of the patients had minor complications that were managed easily. Factors influencing morbidity in the voluntary donor ...

The system which determines who among those with respiratory impairment will qualify for disability benefits stands in need of change. Physicians need clearer criteria by which to ascribe occupational cause to impairment. Suggestions from experts should be shared and implemented more extensively. And practices of governmental agencies should be standardized ...

The effectiveness of federal automobile safety standards was examined using detailed data on 236,000 vehicles in fatal crashes in the United States during 1975-1978. Controlling statistically for type of regulation, types of vehicles, and ages of vehicles, the federal motor vehicle safety standards were associated with substantial reductions in car ...

This paper proposes that doctors need to accept the technical meaning of terms used in economics such as effectiveness, efficiency, cost, input, process, cost benefit and outcome. The usefulness of these terms is discussed, with examples, and it is agreed that effectiveness and efficiency are best examined by those whose ...

Many or most allergen extracts available for clinical use are unacceptable for use in human medicine. Informed physicians refrain from using them in hyposensitization. We demand that regulations and control as to quality and standardization be enforced by the appropriate authorities without further delay. We have to compromise with the ...

Descriptive cataloging practices for serial differ significantly in some respects between the Library of Congress and the National Library of Medicine. This paper compares some of these differences and indicates the impact they can have on the development of on-line cooperative data bases such as OCLC. Attention is also given ...

Carefully designed and highly specific standards for medical practice can improve the pattern of practice when applied by interested and committed physicians or by other similarly motivated health care providers. However, this is not popular with the physician, and the improved pattern of practice is dependent on continued feedback. The ...

A review of clinical and experimental data pertaining to the standardization of allergenic extracts is presented. Various problems facing practicing allergists are outlined: potency and stability of extracts the reactivity of the patient, in vitro and in vivo methods for assessing potency. Practical recommendations for allergists concerning allergenic extracts and ...

Forty-six physicians practicing in nonurban areas of California were interviewed. A majority reported that they rarely or never felt professionally isolated. Measures describing the current community and professional activities were not found to predict feeling of professional isolation. The only background variable found to be significantly related to feelings of ...

The author discusses practical issues relating to optometrists ordering and laboratories supplying ophthalmic lenses that meet the ANSI Z80. 1 Standard (1972) for minimizing unwanted spherical and cylindrical power in the periphery of lenses. He spells out the optical principles and formulas needed to develop a computer program that can ...

Answers to questionnaires distributed to all trainees in the Scottish south-east region in 1972 and 1973 showed a wide variation between the standard of teaching in individual practices. This was partly due to a failure of the organizing bodies to give proper guidance on the modern concepts of training to ...

2d English ed., rev. and enl. by Thomas R. Burton ...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Georgia, 2003.

The home page of the Australian forestry standard gives details on its operation and current activities. The Australian forestry standard is a non-profit company that manages elements of the Australian Forest Certification Scheme, promoting sustainable forest management through standards, accreditation and certification. The home page is split into sections for ...

This document, published in September 2007, is the Nursing and Midwifery Council's Standards for the supervised practice of midwives - the aim of which is to provide clear and consistent guidance on statutory supervision. It provides an overview of the Supervisor of Midwives' role and a definition of misconduct. The ...

This 81-page document is the Nursing and Midwifery Council's (NMC) Standards for medicines management. Published in February 2008, they replace the Guidelines for the administration of medicines that were originally published in 2004. The purpose of the document is to provide guidance for safe practice in the management and administration ...

This 31-page document is the first annual report from the MHRA's Advertising Standards Unit aims to contribute to the MHRA's policy of transparency in the regulation of medicines advertising. Its sections include a foreword and chapters headed 'A time of change', 'A realigned Advertising Standards Unit', 'Transparency in practice', 'Listening ...

The Walkerton Inquiry Part 2 Report addressed the second part of the mandate from the Government of Ontario under the Public Inquiries Act, following the Walkerton tragedy, namely, "to make such findings and recommendations as the commission considers advisable to ensure the safety of the water supply system in Ontario." ...

An ideal background-corrected spectrometer is suggested as a standard to which the sensitivity of any practical Zeeman-corrected spectrometer can be related. Appropriate equations describing the relation are derived.

In the first of two articles, the authors describe how an internal clinical practice benchmarking group was established in Preston to compare and share examples of best practice. The aim was to ensure consistent high standards of care practice across the trust. Activity related to discharge planning and visiting is ...

The off duty or rostering system is an important part of managing any ward or department. This article looks at the issues that need to be considered when drawing up and managing off duty. It recommends standards for off-duty planning and shares the results of an audit carried out against ...

Current Aimerienn practice in color measurement is reviewed from the standpoint of instrumentation practice, measurement concepts, and computational methods. Instrumentation practice is described for spectrophotometers, abridged spectrophotometers, and tristimulus colorimeters. Measurement variables discussed include photometric and wavelength scales, standards and standardization, illuminating and viewing geometry, and instrument sources simulating standard ...

The preparation of seven Standard Agglutinating Sera considered suitable to serve as international standard preparations for use in the serodiagnosis of typhoid and paratyphoid infections are described, and proposals are made for their further examination on a collaborative international basis.Details are given of antigenic materials and immunizing procedures which should ...

The author points out that determination of the mean antitoxin titre is inadequate for ascertaining fine differences in the activity of diphtheria and tetanus toxoids, but that these differences become clearly recognizable when the relation is established between the antigen dose and the proportion of individuals whose antitoxin titre exceeds ...