There are several reasons why American health-care costs are so high compared to those abroad: patients are given more intense care, administrative spending is especially high, health services are more expensive, doctors have a financial incentive to suggest more treatment, and people with insurance aren't held accountable for the high cost of their care.
Our study results support this finding as well, and lead to the conclusion that physicians working at public hospitals have to work overtime largely because of more intense documentation and administrative duties.
The discovery, coming after a year of searing criticism, administrative reforms and intense news coverage of the New Jersey Division of Youth and Family Services, left agency and state officials demoralized and baffled as to how this one could have been missed.
Recruits reported to Fort Dix for 7 weeks of initial training through the basic training reception center, where they lived and were processed into the Army during an intense 3 days of examinations, administrative procedures, and indoctrination.
The Egyptian president flew abruptly to Saudi Arabia, for example, last weekend, when the the talks appeared to have reached a particularly intense stage as specific proposals for partial administrative control over some sites in Jerusalem were offered by the Israelis.
Danchev's energy was phenomenal: his commitment to teaching, for which he won several awards, remained intense despite his stream of publications, arduous administrative duties and membership of august editorial boards.
Some nurse-led services were restricted to operating more routine clinics where the administrative workload is arguably more intense but the majority of cases less medically complex: ""Contact screening clinics are nurse led and follow up clinics too".
As with many other prominent Latin American authors, Fuentes combined an administrative and diplomatic career with his intense literary output.
"He can convey to the mentee that he loves his job, although it involves intense work, long hours, and is sometimes loaded with administrative tasks," he says.
Although most groups (the more intense and less adopted form) employ a part-time nurse or an administrative assistant, associations, nets, and groups are better understood as uni-professional networks.
