Among patients with a bile duct injury during cholecystectomy, we found a doubled hazard of death during the first year compared with patients with no injuries.
Because professional services are typically characterized by a high degree of transactional uncertainty and a double moral hazard risk, contracts can be essential for the creation of incentives to control the behavior of those involved in the service encounter.
We consider a principal who encounters a double moral hazard problem.
Since the effort level exerted by a retailer is often unverifiable, it results in a double moral hazard problem.
In general, the principal weighs a multi-task problem (if both tasks delegated) against a double moral hazard problem (if one task retained).
We consider an optimal contract between an entrepreneur and an investor, where the entrepreneur is subject to a double-moral hazard problem (one being the choice of production effort and the other being earnings manipulation).
A double-peaked hazard of relapse with menopausal status dependent features has been reported for early stage breast cancer patients undergoing resection of the primary tumor.
These findings were confirmed by a similar investigation on node-positive patients receiving adjuvant CMF (cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, fluorouracil) treatment [ 13], and a double-peaked hazard function was also demonstrated for the timing of death after primary tumour resection [ 14- 16].
29 30 31 In the largest randomised study to date the risk of venous thromboembolism in women using exogenous oestrogens compared with placebo was doubled (hazard ratio 2.06, 95% confidence interval 1.57 to 2.70).
However, excluding these patients from the analysis, a double-peak mortality hazard pattern remains (data not shown).
