Chisat I, extension and validation of NOAA's REPEX procedures for habitat diving : a Chinese-American collaboration /

"October 1990."

Head Start and Even Start : greater collaboration needed on measures of adult education and literacy /

"GAO-02-348."

The record of collaboration of King Farouk of Egypt with the Nazis and their ally, the Mufti; the official Nazi records of the King's alliance and of the Mufti's plans for bombing Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Memorandum submitted to the United Nations June 1948.

Cover title.

Dictionnaire de chimie pure et appliquée --Avec la collaboration de mm. P. T. Cleve-- E. Demarçay--A. Étard [et des autres] Supplément ...

Mode of access: Internet.

De la collaboration dans les œuvres littéraires.: Examen juridique ...

Thèse--Toulouse, Université.

Lead poisoning prevention with states in collaboration with local health departments : a model for intervention related to lead poisoning in indoor firing ranges /

Includes bibliographical references (p. 16)

Author and composer; a digest for songwriters, dramatists, scenario writers, fictionists.

Numbering irregular: v. 9-13 repeated.

Building the watertable of youth employability : collaboration to support children and youth at risk between ages nine and fifteen /

"May 1988."

La pierre de touche; a comedy by Eḿile Augier in collaboration with Jules Sandeau;

Mode of access: Internet.

How to handle collective bargaining negotiations. This is a confidential manual for management prepared by "bargaining experts" in collaboration with the editorial staff of Executive's labor letter ...

Reproduced from type-written copy.

L'Europe préhistorique, principes d'archéologie préhistorique; tr. du danois avec la collaboration de l'auteur,

Bibliographies at end of chapters.

ENEWS, scenario generation.

Mode of access: Internet.

L'Université de Bruxelles, 1884-1909 pendant son troisième quart de siècle par Goblet d'Alviella avec la collaboration d'un groupe de professeurs.

Continuation of L'Université de Bruxelles, 1834-1884 par L. V. J. A. Vanderkindere.

Self-help organisations: A qualitative study of successful collaboration with general practice

Thousands of self-help organisations (SHOs) exist in Australia but little is known about how they relate to the mainstream health care system. This qualitative study, based in south-east Queensland, aimed to identify examples of collaboration between general practitioners (GPs) and SHOs in order to examine the attributes of successful partnerships. Representatives of six SHOs, identified by key informants as having good collaborative links with GPs, and seven GPs with whom they collaborated, completed semi-structured interviews. The interviews focused on evidence of collaboration and perceptions of benefits and barriers experienced. Maximum variation sampling enabled a cross-section of SHOs in terms of size, funding, and health issue. Although GPs readily identified SHO benefits, they referred patients to them only rarely. SHO credibility, evidence of tangible benefits for patients, ease of contacting the SHO, and correspondence between the SHO?s focus and the GP?s personal and professional interests appear to contribute to the success of partnerships. We conclude that mutually beneficial partnerships between GPs and SHOs exist but are under-utilised. A more coordinated effort is needed to strengthen links between the two sectors.

Multisite, quality-improvement collaboration to optimise cardiac care in Queensland public hospitals

Objective: To evaluate changes in quality of in-hospital care of patients with either acute coronary syndromes (ACS) or congestive heart failure (CHF) admitted to hospitals participating in a multisite quality improvement collaboration. Design: Before-and-after study of changes in quality indicators measured on representative patient samples between June 2001 and January 2003. Setting: Nine public hospitals in Queensland. Study populations: Consecutive or randomly selected patients admitted to study hospitals during the baseline period (June 2001 to January 2002; n = 807 for ACS, n = 357 for CHF) and post-intervention period (July 2002 to January 2003; n = 717 for ACS, n = 220 for CHF). Intervention: Provision of comparative baseline feedback at a facilitative workshop combined with hospital-specific quality-improvement interventions supported by on-site quality officers and a central program management group. Main outcome measure: Changes in process-of-care indicators between baseline and post-intervention periods. Results: Compared with baseline, more patients with ACS in the post-intervention period received therapeutic heparin regimens (84% v 72%; P < 0.001), angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (64% v 56%; P = 0.02), lipid-lowering agents (72% v 62%; P < 0.001), early use of coronary angiography (52% v 39%; P < 0.001), in-hospital cardiac counselling (65% v 43%; P < 0.001), and referral to cardiac rehabilitation (15% v 5%; P < 0.001). The numbers of patients with CHF receiving β-blockers also increased (52% v 34%; P < 0.001), with fewer patients receiving deleterious agents (13% v 23%; P = 0.04). Same-cause 30-day readmission rate decreased from 7.2% to 2.4% (P = 0.02) in patients with CHF. Conclusion: Quality-improvement interventions conducted as multisite collaborations may improve in-hospital care of acute cardiac conditions within relatively short time frames.