Update of the Dutch manual for costing studies in health care.

Dutch health economic guidelines include a costing manual, which describes preferred research methodology for costing studies and reference prices to ensure Fondotinta in Polvere high quality studies and comparability between study outcomes.This paper describes the most important revisions of the costing manual compared to the previous version.An o

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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE USE OF A PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM, ORGANIZATIONAL FACTORS, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND THE PERFORMANCE OF PUBLIC SECTOR ORGANIZATIONS

This research studies the accountability and performance of public sector organizations.It provides empirical evidence about the relationship between the use of a performance measurement system and the organizational factors of accountability and organizational performance.We investigate the three roles of a performance measurement system (its oper

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Cancer Burden in Latin America and the Caribbean

Background: In Latin America and the Caribbean, the epidemiological transition has been occurring in an unequal manner.Infectious-contagious diseases share space with the increase of chronic nontransmissible diseases, such as cancer, which already represents the second most common cause of death, after cardiovascular illnesses.Objectives: This stud

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New reports, phylogenetic analysis, and a key to Lactarius Pers. in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem informed by molecular data

The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE), located in the Central Rocky Mountains of western North America, is one of the largest nearly intact temperate-zone ecosystems on Earth.Here, Lactarius is an important component of ectomycorrhizal communities in many habitat types, from low elevation riparian areas to high elevation conifer forests and alpin

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