scholarly journals Is there a need for a clear advice? A retrospective comparative analysis of ethics consultations with and without recommendations in a maximum-care university hospital

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dagmar Schmitz ◽  
Dominik Groß ◽  
Roman Pauli
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Daily Practice ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
Single Center ◽  
Interpersonal Conflicts ◽  
Ethics Rounds

Abstract Background The theory and practice of ethics consultations (ECs) in health care are still characterized by many controversies, including, for example, the practice of giving recommendations. These controversies are complicated by an astonishing lack of evidence in the whole field. It is not clear how often a recommendation is issued in ethics consultations and when and why this step is taken. Especially in a facilitation model in which giving recommendations is optional, more data would be helpful to evaluate daily practice, ensure that this practice is in line with the overarching goals of this approach and support the development of standards. Methods We analyzed all consultations requested from an EC service working under a facilitation approach at a maximum-care university hospital in Germany over a period of more than 10 years. Our aim was to better understand why—and under what circumstances—some consultation requests result in a recommendation, whereas others can be sufficiently addressed solely by facilitated meetings. We especially wanted to know when and why clients felt the need for clear advice from the EC service while in other cases they did not. We compared ethics consultations in terms of the differences between cases with and without recommendations issued by the ethics consultants using χ2 difference tests and Welch’s t-test. Results A total of 243 ECs were carried out between September 2008 and December 2019. In approximately half of the cases, a recommendation was given. All recommendations were issued upon the request of clients. When physicians asked for an EC, the consultation was significantly more likely to result in a recommendation than when the EC was requested by any other party. ECs in cases on wards with ethics rounds resulted in comparably fewer recommendations than those in wards without ethics rounds. When interpersonal conflicts were part of the problem or relatives were present in the meeting, clients less frequently asked for a recommendation. Conclusion From the client’s point of view, there does not seem to be only one “right” way to provide ethics consultations, but rather several. While facilitated meetings are obviously appreciated by clients, there also seem to be situations in which a recommendation is desired (especially by physicians). Further empirical and theoretical research is needed to validate our single-center results and re-evaluate the role of recommendations in ethics consultations.

scholarly journals INTERNATIONAL ELECTRONIC STOCK TRADING: MECHANISM OF FUNCTIONING AND CURRENT TRENDS

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (20) ◽  
pp. 15-24
Author(s):  
Andriy Syshchuk ◽  
Viktoria Khirova
Keyword(s):  
International Trade ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Stock Exchanges ◽  
Stock Trading ◽  
Trade Relations ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Stock Indices ◽  
Trading Mechanism

Abstract. Modern international electronic stock trading is becoming increasingly important in the organization of the system of international trade relations. Several studies of the domestic and foreign scientists have highlighted various aspects of the place and role of electronic exchanges in trade relations between countries. At the same time, the peculiarities of the mechanism of functioning of the international e-commerce, which is constantly evolving and improving, need to be studied both from the point of view of theory and practice. Electronic exchanges have created and implemented their own mechanism of functioning, which turns them into the most organized form of international trade. It is substantiated that trends and key features of the development of electronic exchanges can be tracked and forecasted with the help of relevant stock indices. The main features and the most important aspects of the development of electronic exchanges are determined, based on the analysis of stock indices of the two largest electronic exchanges in the world, the geographical structure of electronic stock exchanges and the dynamics of the use of artificial intelligence in the exchange trading process. Here also highlighted the negative and positive interdependencies regarding the future development of international e-commerce.

Teachers and Teaching in Game-Based Learning Theory and Practice

2013 ◽  
pp. 147-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario M. Martinez-Garza ◽  
Douglas Clark
Keyword(s):  
Learning Theory ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
Game Based Learning ◽  
Learning Context ◽  
Learning Practices ◽  
Learning Research ◽  
Role Of Teachers

Interest in game-based learning has grown dramatically over the past decade. Thus far, most of the focus has not included the role of teachers. This chapter first summarizes the theoretical research on game-based learning and the implications of that research for the role of teachers. The authors next review the game-based learning literature that has specifically articulated a role for teachers or achieved an empirical description of teacher action within a game-based learning context. They then connect these accounts with more general research on teachers and technology use, elaborating on points of contact and identifying differences that may signal special challenges. Finally, the authors articulate an expanded role for teachers in game-based learning practices in terms of game-based learning research and new scholarship on the psychology of games.

The Role of Business Schools in Marketing Education

2021 ◽  
pp. 42-56
Author(s):  
Andre Vilares Morgado
Keyword(s):  
Business Schools ◽  
Marketing Research ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Theoretical Point ◽  
Marketing Theory ◽  
Marketing Education ◽  
Inductive Approach

Business schools play a key role in training marketing professionals. However, there is a strong divide between the expectations held by marketing professionals and those held in academia. This article considers this phenomenon from a theoretical point of view and explores its causes. The author argues that business schools are able to play a key role in bridging theory and practice in marketing. The article closes by offering several suggestions for how business schools might increase the relevance of marketing research while reducing the gap between marketing theory and practice. In particular, the article suggests the adoption of an inductive approach to research and offers a set of policies that business schools can implement in order to close this gap.

scholarly journals A crise de identidade do museu: Ensaio sobre o “ser ou não ser” dos museus

2014 ◽  
pp. 131-157
Author(s):  
Nilo Cerqueira
Keyword(s):  
Social Role ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Target Image ◽  
Practical Activity ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Guidelines ◽  
Descriptive Knowledge

It is important to museology, museums and especially for visitors to define concepts about the social role of the museum and the museum as an organization. For museums is important from the point of view of its delineations of activity and modes of dialogue. To Museology has value because it gives the mission often propose new guidelines to improve and moments between the museum and society. And finally, for the visitor, it is the reason, the nature of the museum settles. At the headquarters of understanding that this not called. A simple walk in the guideline of the history of advent museum, and you can notice the dissonance between theory, the θεωρία Greek, is the purely rational descriptive knowledge . And the prâxix , 'action' . ] S.f.2 n.1 . Practical activity; action exercise use. In the course of these lines, we note, in the spectrum of branding, the various inconsistencies between theory and practice, the first image and the target image, between the rational and emotional, between being what want to be. Or as the article suggests, between the being or not being of museums.

scholarly journals Dostoevsky - Strakhov - Tolstoy: Toward to the Story of One Conflict

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-88
Author(s):  
Svetlana M. Klimova
Keyword(s):  
Philosophical Anthropology ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Direct Relation ◽  
Religious Thought ◽  
Dual Nature ◽  
Interpersonal Conflicts ◽  
Fyodor Dostoevsky ◽  
Religious Consciousness ◽  
Definition Of

The well-known epistolary conflict between Fyodor Dostoevsky and Nikolai Strakhov over the latter's slander of the great Russian writer's terrible sins is considered in the article from the point of view a philosophical anthropology and relations not two but between three participants of this story: Dostoyevsky, Strakhov and Tolstoy. This conflict is presented through anthropological, existential, and class prisms of description, based on a reconstruction of Strakhov's concept of man as a controversial, dual, and undefined being reflected in Dostoevsky's work. A direct relation between the definition of the dual nature of man in the works of Strakhov and Dostoevsky and interpersonal conflicts within "boundary forms of literature" is substantiated. Special attention is paid to the class of seminarians, the object of Dostoevsky's targeted criticism. He saw their worst characteristics in Strakhov personality. Tolstoy plays the role of an arbiter in this controversy, assessing the situation both in terms of literary, existential and religious thought. In the course of his examination of this conflict, his unexpected closeness to Dostoevsky was discovered in regard to assessment of Strakhov. The point of their coincidence was the "pink Christianity" of the writers, who justify man in a quite similar manner, in terms of their religious consciousness.

The Role of Business Schools in Marketing Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-58
Author(s):  
Andre Vilares Morgado
Keyword(s):  
Business Schools ◽  
Marketing Research ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Theoretical Point ◽  
Marketing Theory ◽  
Marketing Education ◽  
Inductive Approach

Business schools play a key role in training marketing professionals. However, there is a strong divide between the expectations held by marketing professionals and those held in academia. This article considers this phenomenon from a theoretical point of view and explores its causes. The author argues that business schools are able to play a key role in bridging theory and practice in marketing. The article closes by offering several suggestions for how business schools might increase the relevance of marketing research while reducing the gap between marketing theory and practice. In particular, the article suggests the adoption of an inductive approach to research and offers a set of policies that business schools can implement in order to close this gap.

Role of an Effective Hospital Information System in a Depressed Economy

1997 ◽  
Vol 36 (02) ◽  
pp. 141-143
Author(s):  
J. A. Olabode ◽  
A. A. Osunlaja
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Information System ◽  
Hospital Information System ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
Economic Use

Abstract:This work is based on practical experience acquired in the development of a hospital information system in a university hospital in Nigeria. The paper discusses how accurate, adequate and timely medical data can promote economy in health-care delivery in a depressed economy. Existing constraints are identified and solutions offered for an effective hospital information system. An effort has been made to illustrate how the application of informatics technology can be cost effective in the long-term, by ensuring effective and economic use of facilities and resources. Once an effective hospital information is operative, provision of affordable health care in a depressed economy would be feasible. To this end, the need for cooperation between countries to support technology and manpower is emphasized.

scholarly journals Students’ as Prospective Hospitality Specialists’ Competitiveness in Theory and Practice

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 119
Author(s):  
Irēna Katane ◽  
Sandra Īriste
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Vocational Education ◽  
Experimental Research ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
Higher Vocational Education ◽  
Global Labor Market ◽  
Research Show

The goal of higher vocational education is to provide competitive hospitality specialists, who will be part of the emerging global labor market in the context of globalization. The objective of the article is to publish results of empirical and theoretical research. The results of the theoretical research show that in the substantiation of the specialists’ competitiveness are the same approaches inherent the personality’s competitiveness explanation and research, namely, the competitiveness is justified as set of qualities. Significant specialists’ competitiveness indicators from the professional point of view are marketability and employability. Main results of the experimental research demonstrate, students’ and scientists’ perceptions of issues relating to competitive personality are similar.

scholarly journals Business Process Linguistic Modeling: Theory and Practice Part I: BPLM Strategy Creator

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jozef Stašák ◽  
Jaroslav Kultan ◽  
Peter Schmidt ◽  
Mukhammedov Abu Urinbasarovich
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Qualitative Description ◽  
Subsequent Section ◽  
Modeling Theory ◽  
Linguistic Modeling ◽  
Quantitative Evaluations

The business activities provided within any firm or company should be checked and controlled continuously, while two principal approaches should be applied: (a) qualitative monitoring, (b) quantitative evaluations, while KPI indicators play a role of principle importance within business quantitative evaluation in order to make adequate decisions. However, adequate applications form KPI creation and further processing seem to be very significant and important. We have designed a conceptual model of application denoted as BPLM Strategy Creator in form of expert system (ES) operating based on principles closely related to business process linguistic modeling approach, where linguistic sets and PBPL Equation play a role of principle importance. Our contribution contains such application description from qualitative, quantitative and design point of view. The ES qualitative description contains references to appropriate math relations and algorithms postulated within a subsequent section. Both sections are accompanied by the case study, which indicates how the math relations and algorithms might be applied within BPLM Strategy Creator functionality. However, those sections are accompanied by ES structure and functionality description as well, which represent the BPLM Strategy Creator mean or facility.

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