Startups and established firms in service sectors mostly fall into the supplier dominated or information intensive categories of Pavitt’s taxonomy. Entrepreneurs in these categories are not isolated from the technological environment because they can also be innovative (at least) by adopting technologies from outside. However, it has hardly been st...
Published in Frontiers in Neurology
Background: Effective training programs for primary care providers (PCPs) to support dementia detection are needed, especially in developing countries. This study aimed to investigate the effect of an enhanced training on the competency and service of PCPs for dementia detection. Methods: We conducted a cluster randomized trial in Beijing, China. C...
Published in MATEC Web of Conferences
With the development of technology, implicitly of the fast and easy access to information, the requirements and exigencies of the customers have changed. The customer asks for much more information about a product before deciding to buy it, and a prompt response from the sales team will tip the balance decisively in favor of the seller. The success...
Published in Journal of Medical Internet Research
Background Mobile health services are gradually being introduced to support patients’ self-management of chronic conditions. The success of these services is contingent upon patients’ continuous use of them. Objective This study aims to develop a model to measure the success of patients’ continuous use of mobile health services for the self-managem...
Published in Journal of Hispanic Higher Education
The COVID-19 pandemic has widely affected existing academia-sponsored community service initiatives. Little is known about the strategies to sustain these initiatives during a public health crisis and the potential effects on community well-being and education. In this case study, we describe the impact of the pandemic on service partnerships betwe...
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Published in Translational Pediatrics
Background Neonatal intensive care is expensive and prolonged. Extremely preterm infants are routinely supported. The costs for this practice at the age of borderline viability are of interest to clinicians and policymakers. Methods We analyzed data from the Canadian national administrative database on total cost and length of hospital care from a ...
As more and more attention is paid to the formation of models of new service development, it is noticed that the compositions of a new model are usually based only on examples of previous models that were presented in the scientific literature. Although the practical application of the proposed models in any organizational condition is often verifi...
Published in Journal of cardiac surgery
The emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 in December 2019, presumed from the city of Wuhan, Hubei province in China, and the subsequent declaration of the disease as a pandemic by the World Health Organization as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in March 2020, had a significant impact on health care systems globally. Each...
Published in Australasian psychiatry : bulletin of Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists
The primary aims were to compare the characteristics and health outcomes of consumers entering a regional mental health service compared with a city service. A retrospective audit was undertaken of consumers aged 18 and over from a regional town and city mental health service. Consumer demographics, diagnoses and outcomes were compared between the ...
