Our attempt to reduce DUP in the complex U.S. healthcare environment uses a model that (a) incorporates local knowledge and uncertainty of the size and determinants of various sources of delay and (b) the pathways to care that reveal potentially malleable nodes on which to prioritize efforts.
Nketiah-Amponsah et al.'s [18] study's the socioeconomic determinants of drinking water source in Ghana and found that income increases access to piped water in residence by 29 percentage points.
This study addresses these issues by testing the relationships between several potential determinants of external technology sourcing, and the differential impacts of external vs. internal sourcing on firm performance.
A cross-cutting determinant and source of tension that emerged under each of these themes was the existence of a set of unwritten but widely accepted cultural rules around prescribing and the significant influence of these rules on healthcare professionals' behaviors.
Other independent determinants of mortality were age, respiratory source of infection, and initial SOFA and APACHE scores (Table 3).
Evidence that composition and hence source are determinants of PM health effects comes from studies demonstrating increased respiratory symptoms in populations living in close proximity to busy roads.
Firstly, the number of instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs) an older person reports having difficulty with, followed by the number of activities of daily living (ADLs) are the strongest determinants of receiving support from any source.
However, when stage shifts over the first week are assessed, it is clear that progression to severe sepsis and/or to septic shock are also independent determinants of mortality and the respiratory source of infection remained as a significant prognostic factor.
The determinants and sources of inter-individual variability in different stages of drug absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion are discussed in detail.
Further, the paper also analyzes the determinants of one of the major sources of technology, namely in-house R&D efforts.
Although sources and determinants of academic entrepreneurship have begun to command the attention of policy-makers and researchers, there remain many unanswered questions about how individual and social factors shape the decisions of academics to engage in entrepreneurial activities.
