Item response theory in healthcare research: Reasons for extending common modelsItem Response Theory (IRT) has enjoyed increased interest in recent years as a method for scaling health-related constructs. However, the context of this application is different from the context of IRT's development. ...
fundamental cause theorygay menspiritualityPeople's beliefs in supernatural explanatory models of health and illness 鈥 beliefs in divine and/or supernatural forces to inform how they perceive, interpret, and respond to health and illness 鈥 may have important implications for their use of health...
Theory versus practice: a review of ‘willingness-to-pay’ in health and health care This paper is based upon an extensive review of 71 willingness-to-pay (WTP) surveys of health and health care published in English during the period 1985–... JAO And,RD Smith - 《Health Economics》 被...
The strategy does, in theory, provide a good framework for innovation, but we also need to recognise the barriers, said Daniell, explaining that the basic business model had to be sustainable. “We certainly have a problem with national-level procurement policies that put almost no value on ge...
(2013) Quantifying drivers of chemical disequilibrium: Theory and application to methane in the Earth's atmosphere. Earth System Dynamics 4:317-331... E Simoncini,N Virgo,A Kleidon - 《Earth System Dynamics》 被引量: 18发表: 2013年 Tourism sustainability in Tibet – Forward planning using a...
Class time was used to explain the theory and operation of various signal processing and data handling techniques that are common to the discipline. Students were required to cite any borrowed code and to explain what the code does in their own words for full credit on assignments. Providing ...
This review aims to comprehensively explore the conceptualization, models, tools, barriers, facilitators, and impacts of CQI within the healthcare system worldwide. Specifically, we address the following research questions: (1) How has CQI been defined across various contexts? (2) What are the div...
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Space Syntax is a theory and method that has been developing for the last 40 years. Originally conceived as a theory of "society and space," it has expanded to other areas. An important aspect of this is technical; it allows the quantification of layouts, and unit spaces within a layout,...
The pace of progress has accelerated relentlessly since key concepts emerged in the late nineteenth century, such as the germ theory of disease, the significance of hygiene, and the importance of data in decision-making processes. The COVID-19 pandemic provides the latest, remarkable evidence of ...