Pharmacist challenges license revocation for incompetence

Background: Discussions around driving cessation between clinicians and dementia patients are challenging. Patients view giving up their license as losing their independence. We sought to develop a tool that enables standardized and consistent driving messaging across clinicians working in a specialist memory clinic, across the span of cognitive disorders Methods: We developed a driving recommendations generator that allows clinicians to produce information handouts personalized to individual patient capabilities and needs. Clinicians select from a list of established recommendations that were developed with neurologist and geriatrician input, and consistent with provincial requirements. Recommendations cover patients’ current driving ability, road safety examinations, alternate transportation, and license revocation. Early driving retirement is emphasized and encouraged, to proactively support patients’ choices, safety and independence. Recommendation and handouts are printed for the patients. Results: Patients reported that the recommendations were easy to read and understand, and helped them to implement physician suggestions. All surveyed clients recommended continuing to provide such recommendations to future patients and families. Clinicians agreed that the tool helped them to save time, and simplified the process of finding accurate information to provide patients. Conclusions: Clinicians have found the system timesaving and useful for simplifying the process of providing helpful, informative resources for patients.

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ON FORECASTING THE INSURANCE MARKET IN RUSSIA AND IN THE ASTRAKHAN REGION

VESTNIK OF ASTRAKHAN STATE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY SERIES ECONOMICS ◽

10.24143/2073-5537-2018-3-125-132 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 125-132

Author(s):

Tatyana Vladimirovna Kotova ◽

Ekaterina Vladimirovna Sokolova ◽

Elena Vladimirovna Chernikina

Keyword(s):

Russian Federation ◽

Insurance Market ◽

Insurance Companies ◽

Positive Tendency ◽

The Russian Federation ◽

License Revocation ◽

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High Degree ◽

The Given ◽

The Relationship

Insurance companies, being one of the most important links in the financial system of the country, make a significant contribution to the development of the national economy. Insufficient stability and a low level of dynamics of insurance development are conditioned by poor capitalization of insurance companies and absence of methodological complex, which would allow to create financial strategy with high degree of efficiency. In the Russian Federation today there are 236 insurance companies, of them 61 are in the Astrakhan region. Every year insurance companies cease their activity due to the license revocation. The study of the insurance market of the Astrakhan region and Russia using modern methods of scientific research, including mathematical models, made it possible to establish the relationship of insurance indicators with GDP and GRP. Studying the developing insurance market allowed to infer about the expediency of using the indicator “depth of the insurance market”. The forecast of this indicator until 2020 was based on the consensus forecast of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation. Development of the insurance market and, consequently, the economy of the region and of the country is affected by many factors. The following indicators were considered as factors: dollar rate, price per gram of gold, MICEX index, central rate of the Central Bank of Russia, and the inflation rate. The constructed multifactorial regression model helped to establish the relationship between the volume of insurance premiums of voluntary insurance, the dollar exchange rate and the level of inflation. The given research algorithm can be used in various fields. The worked out forecast of the parameter of depth of insurance market in the Astrakhan region and Russia proved positive tendency in developing regional and Russian insurance market.

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