Private Sector
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Institutions' expectations for researchers' self-funding, federal grant holding, and private industry involvement: manifold drivers of self-interest and researcher behavior.

30 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: Private industry involvement is viewed as tainting research with self-interest, whereas public funding is generally well regarded. Yet, dependence on "soft money" also triggers researcher and university self-interest. No empirical ... Read more...

Supporting culture change: working toward smarter state nursing home regulation.

29 Sep 2009 The traditional nursing home regulatory approach, which uses survey and enforcement to achieve performance improvement, has created tensions between providers and surveyors. It has had limited success in improving quality overall and not necessarily ... Read more...

African Americans in commercial HMOs more likely to delay prescription drugs and use the emergency room.

29 Sep 2009 Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) are designed to provide comprehensive health care, including primary care to their enrollees. However, HMOs deliver care through a wide variety of physician networks, settings and methods throughout the nation ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Private Sector'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Institutions' expectations for researchers' self-funding, federal grant holding, and private industry involvement: manifold drivers of self-interest and researcher behavior. 30 Oct 2009
• When history really is not applicable or relevant. 24 Oct 2009
• Equity and NHS reforms. What about independent sector treatment centres? 19 Oct 2009
• Cost is killing patients: subsidising effective antimalarials. 8 Oct 2009
• Supporting culture change: working toward smarter state nursing home regulation. 29 Sep 2009
• African Americans in commercial HMOs more likely to delay prescription drugs and use the emergency room. 29 Sep 2009
• Appropriateness of collaborations between industry and the medical profession: physicians' perceptions. 29 Sep 2009
• Inequities in maternal postnatal visits among public and private patients: 2004 Pelotas cohort study. 12 Sep 2009
• Doctors on coverage--physicians' views on a new public insurance option and Medicare expansion. 12 Sep 2009
• Non-communicable diseases and the Paris Declaration. 3 Sep 2009
• Are HIECs the answer? 30 Aug 2009
• Imperfect health reform via an imperfect political system. 30 Aug 2009
• [Incitament and bonus systems lead in the wrong direction] 30 Aug 2009
• Drug use evaluation of sitagliptin dosing by pharmacist versus nonpharmacist clinicians in an internal medicine department of a private physician-owned multispecialty clinic. 30 Aug 2009
• The health and health system of South Africa: historical roots of current public health challenges. 22 Aug 2009
• The case for integrating oral health into primary health care. 19 Aug 2009
• Ethical issues relating the the banking of umbilical cord blood in Mexico. 12 Aug 2009
• [The development of European Union common research and development policy and programs with special regard to life sciences] 7 Aug 2009
• Quality of care in for-profit and not-for-profit nursing homes: systematic review and meta-analysis. 2 Aug 2009
• Private transplantations of NHS organs to be banned in UK from October. 2 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'Private Sector'

Definition: That distinct portion of the institutional, industrial, or economic structure of a country that is controlled or owned by non-governmental, private interests.

Descriptor UI: D017149

Alternative terms: Private Sector; Sector, Private; Private Enterprise; Enterprise, Private; Enterprises, Private; Private Enterprises;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics; manpower;

Tree Number: I01.791; N04.452.633.390;

History Note: 93

Technical Notes: IM; specify nature of private endeavor (IM); specify geog if pertinent