Budget allocations to Clinical Commissioning Groups include adjustments for unmet need
for healthcare, but there is a lack of robust evidence to support this. This article describes a …

Objectives To test the impact of a UK pay-for-performance indicator, the Quality and Outcomes
Framework (QOF) dementia review, on three types of hospital admission for people with …

Integrated care is often perceived as a solution for some of the major challenges faced by
health and social care systems. In these systems, 20% of the population accounts for 80% of …

Background Serious mental illness (SMI), including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and other
psychoses, is linked with high disease burden, poor outcomes, high treatment costs and …

Absence of seedlings of pitch pine (Pinus rigida Mill.) in the vicinity of seed trees in the
scrub oak-pitch pine forest area in central Pennsylvania known as the Barrens is a striking …

Electron beam induced loss of mass from the organic matrix and from higher Z constituents
of biological samples was measured by monitoring bremsstrahlung and peak changes in …

The hospice sector has expanded and diversified rapidly in recent years and has become
associated with the provision of highly specialised, good quality care for the dying. However, …

In an ever-changing environment, innovation is a key concern for nearly every organization,
including libraries. Innovation is not necessarily spontaneous; in fact, workplace factors …

This study evaluated two approaches to the aquaculture of Limulus polyphemus with the
ultimate goal of harvesting Limulus amebocyte lysate (LAL) at an industrial scale. To monitor …

The relatively restricted use of hormone replacement therapy in the United Kingdom has
frequently been noted. It is possible that low prescribing rates may, in part, be due to the …