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Seemed Like a Good Idea

Alchemy versus Evidence-Based Approaches to Healthcare Management Innovation

By: Mark Pauly,Flaura Winston,Mary Naylor,Kevin Volpp,Lawton Robert Burns,Ralph Muller,David Asch,Rachel Werner,Bimal Desai,Krisda Chaiyachati,Benjamin Chartock

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Seemed Like a Good Idea

Alchemy versus Evidence-Based Approaches to Healthcare Management Innovation

By: Mark Pauly,Flaura Winston,Mary Naylor,Kevin Volpp,Lawton Robert Burns,Ralph Muller,David Asch,Rachel Werner,Bimal Desai,Krisda Chaiyachati,Benjamin Chartock

Consumers, public officials, and even managers of health care and insurance are unhappy about care quality, access, and costs. This book shows that is because efforts to do something about these problems often rely on hope or conjecture, not rigorous evidence of effectiveness. In this book, experts in the field separate the speculative from the proven with regard to how care is rendered, how patients can be in control, how providers should be paid, and how disparities can be reduced – and they also identify the issues for which evidence is currently missing. It provides an antidote to frustration and a clear-eyed guide for forward progress, helping health care and insurance innovators make better decisions on deciding whether to go ahead now based on current evidence, to seek and wait for additional evidence, or to move on to different ideas. It will be useful to practitioners in hospital systems, medical groups, and insurance organizations and can also be used in executive and MBA teaching.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009019112

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9781009019118

Group Sequential and Confirmatory Adaptive Designs in Clinical Trials

By: Gernot Wassmer,Werner Brannath

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Group Sequential and Confirmatory Adaptive Designs in Clinical Trials

By: Gernot Wassmer,Werner Brannath

This book provides an up-to-date review of the general principles of and techniques for confirmatory adaptive designs. Confirmatory adaptive designs are a generalization of group sequential designs. With these designs, interim analyses are performed in order to stop the trial prematurely under control of the Type I error rate. In adaptive designs, it is also permissible to perform a data-driven change of relevant aspects of the study design at interim stages. This includes, for example, a sample-size reassessment, a treatment-arm selection or a selection of a pre-specified sub-population. Essentially, this adaptive methodology was introduced in the 1990s. Since then, it has become popular and the object of intense discussion and still represents a rapidly growing field of statistical research. This book describes adaptive design methodology at an elementary level, while also considering designing and planning issues as well as methods for analyzing an adaptively planned trial. This includes estimation methods and methods for the determination of an overall p-value. Part I of the book provides the group sequential methods that are necessary for understanding and applying the adaptive design methodology supplied in Parts II and III of the book. The book contains many examples that illustrate use of the methods for practical application. The book is primarily written for applied statisticians from academia and industry who are interested in confirmatory adaptive designs. It is assumed that readers are familiar with the basic principles of descriptive statistics, parameter estimation and statistical testing. This book will also be suitable for an advanced statistical course for applied statisticians or clinicians with a sound statistical background.

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310

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Springer

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3319325620

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9783319325620

Contextual Process Digitalization

Changing Perspectives – Design Thinking – Value-Led Design

By: Albert Fleischmann,Stefan Oppl,Werner Schmidt,Christian Stary

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Contextual Process Digitalization

Changing Perspectives – Design Thinking – Value-Led Design

By: Albert Fleischmann,Stefan Oppl,Werner Schmidt,Christian Stary

This open access book presents an overview and step-by-step explanation of process management. It starts with the individual participants’ perspectives on their work in a process and its structuring and harmonization, and then moves on to its specification in a model and how it is embedded in the organizational and IT environment of the company. Lastly, the book examines the joint processing of instances in the resulting socio-technical systems. A corresponding illustration, which expands with the overview, enables readers to gain a comprehensive understanding of business process management. The book presents various facets of business process management from the perspective of the participants, and introduces a selection of models that have proved useful in practice. The design of such models supports the transition from a more-or-less unstructured or unsatisfactory way of working to a structured process that corresponds to the ideas of the company and its customers. The book is intended for professionals in industry as well as students in the field of business information systems who are looking for guidelines on how to discover, create and implement real-world processes.

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282

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Springer Nature

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3030383008

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9783030383008

Building Leadership in Project and Network Management

A Facilitator's Tool Set

By: Hans-Werner Franz,Ruggiera Sarcina

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Building Leadership in Project and Network Management

A Facilitator's Tool Set

By: Hans-Werner Franz,Ruggiera Sarcina

1 1. 1 The book The book in your hand is not a scientific book, although it is based just as much on science as on my own experience in consultancy and management. As its title suggests, we want to build a bridge between the leadership that is typical of facilitation techniques and that of pr- ect and network management. Therefore this book does more than p- vide you with insights into the mainly methodical Messages we want to transmit. It will also make suggestions for how to train facilitators, and in the centre of the book you will find a wealth of 40 carefully selected and reality-proof Tools, many of which have never been pre- ously published in English, and in some case have never been published at all. With all of these you will find a presentation of our way of using them. Our sole objective is to offer our views and experience in impr- ing communication for effective co-operation, i. e. we want people who collaborate in some way to find and decide on the best courses of action, then share and implement these decisions better. We want to promote learning by doing, just as well as doing by learning. So this book is for people who in some way are responsible for s- cessful co-operation in projects, in and across organisations or networks of organisations. Action Learning has many fathers (but few mothers) and roots.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540939563

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9783540939566

Prosocial Behaviour

By: Hans-Werner Bierhoff

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Prosocial Behaviour

By: Hans-Werner Bierhoff

How can social bonds in society be strengthened? How do we learn and develop prosocial behaviour? This textbook provides coverage of the social phenomenon of prosocial behaviour, incorporating all the major developments in the fields of developmental and social psychology.

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Psychology Press

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1135471126

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Full Strength

A Training Handbook for a Strong Back and a Healthy Body

By: Werner Kieser

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Full Strength

A Training Handbook for a Strong Back and a Healthy Body

By: Werner Kieser

This clearly-presented manual explains the principles and methods behind the Kieser training methods for tackling and preventing back problems. It discusses the benefits of using weights to develop and maintain the musculoskeletal system as well as other treatments.

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Informa Healthcare

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1841840947

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9781841840949

Anxiety-Free with Food

Natural, Science-Backed Strategies to Relieve Stress and Support Your Mental Hea lth

By: Liana Werner-Gray

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Anxiety-Free with Food

Natural, Science-Backed Strategies to Relieve Stress and Support Your Mental Hea lth

By: Liana Werner-Gray

“Liana’s recipes are packed with antioxidants, magnesium, and healthy omega fats to help reduce stress and defeat anxiety.” — Mark Hyman, M.D., New York Times best-selling author of Food: What the Heck Should I Eat? Release stress and anxiety naturally with this simple yet comprehensive nutrition guide that supports your mental health from Liana Werner-Gray, author of Cancer-Free with Food. Eat your way to calm . . . If you're feeling anxious, stressed, or depressed, you're not alone. The world may be in turmoil-but inside, we can feel unwavering peace. We can support our mental and physical health by avoiding anxiety-inducing ingredients and choosing foods and supplements that support our microbiome, address nutritional deficiencies, and balance our hormones. Liana Werner-Gray, nutritionist and author of The Earth Diet and Cancer-Free with Food, offers this simple guide to all the scientifically backed, nutrient-rich foods and supplements you need to support your emotional wellness. She offers 100+ delicious gluten-free, soy-free, refined sugar-free, and dairy-free recipes that both nourish the body and support optimal brain function. With Liana's easy strategies based on nutritional neuroscience, you'll feel empowered to take control of your mental well-being. Remember, life is meant to be enjoyed. Let your first step toward an anxiety-free life start with your next meal!

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Hay House, Inc

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1401961762

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9781401961763

German Economic and Business History in the 19th and 20th Centuries

By: Werner Plumpe

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German Economic and Business History in the 19th and 20th Centuries

By: Werner Plumpe

German economic history in the industrial age has classically formed an important basis for the study of economic growth and industrialisation more generally. This book aims to introduce English-language readers to modern German economic history based on a selection of work by one of Germany's leading economic and business historians, Werner Plumpe, who places particular emphasis on the institutional structure of the economy. Plumpe's work demonstrates that the country's economic evolution can only be understood by paying close attention to institutional peculiarities, such as the shape of industrial relations and the dynamics of corporate decision-making. It also emphasises the importance of the interconnectedness of capital and labour in the German coordinated market economy and draws attention to individual events and decisions that may have driven long-term economic development, but are rarely considered in approaches that deal primarily with macroeconomic growth. German Economic and Business History in the 19th and 20th Century shows that Germany's economic history still warrants the application of an institutional view of economic transformation that is slightly different from the more formal perspectives dominant in the UK and the US. The book serves as a practical demonstration of a historicist approach to economic history introduced by the German Historical School a century ago, which still inspires large parts of German economic historiography./div

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Springer

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113751860X

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Music and Fuzzy Logic

The Dialectics of Idea and Realizations in the Artwork Process

By: Hanns-Werner Heister

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Music and Fuzzy Logic

The Dialectics of Idea and Realizations in the Artwork Process

By: Hanns-Werner Heister

This book unfolds the manifold, complex and intertwined relations between Fuzzy Logic and music in a first comprehensive overview on this topic: systematically as an outline, as completely as possible, in the aspects of Fuzzy Logic in this relation, and especially in music as a process with three main phases, five anthropological layers, and thirteen forms of existence of the art work (Classics, Jazz, Pop, Folklore). Being concerned with the ontological, gnoseological, psychological, and (music-) aesthetical status and the relative importance of different phenomena of relationship between music and Fuzzy Logic, the explication follows the four main principles (with five phenotypes) of Fuzzy Logic with respect to music: similarity, sharpening 1 as filtering, sharpening 2 as crystallization, blurring, and variation. The book reports on years of author’s research on topics that have been only little explored so far in the area of Music and Fuzzy Logic. It merges concepts of music analysis with fuzzy logical modes of thinking, in a unique way that is expected to attract both specialists of music and specialists of Fuzzy Logic, and also non-specialists in both fields. The book introduces the concept of dialectic between sharpening and – conscious – “blurring”. In turn, some important aspects of this dialectic are discussed, placing them in an historical dimension, and ending in the postulation of a 'musical turn' in the sciences, with some important reflections concerning a “Philosophy of Fuzzy Logic”. Moreover, a production-oriented thinking is borrowed from fuzzy logic to musicology in this book, opening new perspectives in music, and possibly also in other artistic fields.

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Springer Nature

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3662629070

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9783662629079

Diagnostic Evaluation of the Knee

By: Michael Strobel,Hans-Werner Stedtfeld

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Diagnostic Evaluation of the Knee

By: Michael Strobel,Hans-Werner Stedtfeld

Knee surgeons world wide have been aware that a beautifully illustrated book on diagnostic evaluation of the knee existed. What we in the English speaking world did not appreciate was the superb quality of the text that ac companied these splendid illustrations. Now, Dr. Michael Strobel and Dr. Hans-Werner Stedtfeld's work, Diagnostic Evaluation of the Knee, has been translated by Mr. Terry Telger into an English text that is clear and cogent. The authors' message is comprehensive and straight forward. They show how diagnosis of knee disorders lends itself to a disciplined, orderly thought pro cess based on a substantial body of scientific knowledge. This book, through effective illustrations, clarity of text and thought, and subject organization, leads the reader through the diagnostic evaluation of the knee in an enjoy able and unforgettable way. Some may think the diagnostic process is dead with the advent of magnetic resonance imaging. They are wrong: the diagnostic process has never been more alive, and M. Strobel and H.-W. Stedtfeld capture the excitement of modern day diagnosis through the integration of many disciplines - anato my, pathophysiology, general examination, special examinations, and special studies. This is the unique character of this book and why it will be a text ap preciated by all who care for the knee-injured patient.

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3642743978

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Methodological Individualism and Holism. Two Views, One Purpose

By: Werner Kieser

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Methodological Individualism and Holism. Two Views, One Purpose

By: Werner Kieser

Master's Thesis from the year 2013 in the subject Philosophy - Theoretical (Realisation, Science, Logic, Language), grade: pass, The Open University, language: English, abstract: This work deals with the philosophy of social explanation. The main topic is the supposed antagonism between methodological individualism and holism. After an overview and the outline of the thesis, the contents, strengths and weaknesses of methodical individualism and holism are explained. The necessity of considering cognitions and achievements of the philosophy of the mind in order to progress is shown. The conclusion amounts to a synthesis of methodological individualism and holism with the inclusion of the intentional stance as a suggestion for a more productive manner in which to explain and predict social phenomena.

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3656944237

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Seemed Like a Good Idea

Seemed Like a Good Idea

Group Sequential and Confirmatory Adaptive Designs in Clinical Trials

Group Sequential and Confirmatory Adaptive Designs in Clinical Trials

Contextual Process Digitalization

Contextual Process Digitalization

Building Leadership in Project and Network Management

Building Leadership in Project and Network Management

Prosocial Behaviour

Prosocial Behaviour

Full Strength

Full Strength

Anxiety-Free with Food

Anxiety-Free with Food

German Economic and Business History in the 19th and 20th Centuries

German Economic and Business History in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Music and Fuzzy Logic

Music and Fuzzy Logic

Diagnostic Evaluation of the Knee

Diagnostic Evaluation of the Knee

Methodological Individualism and Holism. Two Views, One Purpose

Methodological Individualism and Holism. Two Views, One Purpose

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