A Guide for Soldiers: Quality Information for a Quality Force

Abstract: Scholarly publishing and access to high-quality information may in fact be threatened, rather than improved, by the revolution in communications, particularly in a fully commercial Internet. The effects of the political revolution in Eastern Europe on scholarship and quality publishing are used as a touchstone of the dangers that occur when naïve revolutionaries make swift changes without fully recognizing the impact upon delicately balanced social institutions such as non-profit organizations. Résumé: La révolution en communications, particulièrement en ce qui regarde un Internet commercialisé, plutôt que d'améliorer l'édition savante et l'accès à de l'information de haute qualité, pourrait en fait poser une menace pour ceux-ci. Cet article examine comment la révolution politique en Europe de l'Est a influé sur la recherche et l'édition de qualité. Il utilise cet exemple pour examiner les dangers que peuvent courir certains révolutionnaires naïfs quand ils instaurent des changements rapides san songer à leur impact sur des institutions sociales à équilibre délicat comme les organisations à but non lucratif.

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The Impact of Claims Management, Treatment, and Rehabilitation on Recovery and Return to Independence

International Journal of Disability Management ◽

10.1017/idm.2012.8 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 7 ◽

pp. 35-39 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Liz Cairns ◽

Maree Dyson ◽

Sally Canobi ◽

Nic Vipond

Keyword(s):

Financial Performance ◽

Best Practice ◽

Personal Injury ◽

Quality Information ◽

Client Outcomes ◽

Evaluation Program ◽

Accident Compensation ◽

Serious Injury ◽

The Impact

The use of contemporaneous evaluation in personal injury insurance enables schemes to maintain and enhance their viability through access to quality information on cost, liabilities and outcomes. Best practice in research programs in the sector requires data on client outcomes and financial performance to be collected. This article presents a case study of the research and evaluation program for the National Serious Injury Service of New Zealand's Accident Compensation Corporation.

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Choice, quality and patients’ experience: evidence from a Finnish physiotherapy service

International Journal of Health Economics and Management ◽

10.1007/s10754-020-09293-z ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Visa Pitkänen ◽

Ismo Linnosmaa

Keyword(s):

Positive Relationship ◽

Competitive Bidding ◽

Quality Data ◽

Rehabilitation Service ◽

Quality Information ◽

Conditional Logit ◽

Provider Quality ◽

Disabled Patients ◽

Patients Experience ◽

The Relationship

AbstractWe study the relationship between patient choices and provider quality in a rehabilitation service for disabled patients who receive the service frequently but do not have access to quality information. Previous research has found a positive relationship between patient choices and provider quality in health services that patients typically do not have previous experience or use frequently. We contribute by examining choices of new patients and experienced patients who were either forced to switch or actively switched their provider. In the analysis, we combine register data on patients’ choices and switches with provider quality data from a competitive bidding, and estimate conditional logit choice models. The results show that all patients prefer high-quality providers within short distances. We find that the willingness to travel for quality is highest among new patients and active switchers. These results suggest that new patients and active switchers compare different alternatives more thoroughly, whereas forced switchers choose their new provider in limited time leading into poorer choices.

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