With the White House zeroing in on the insurance-industry practice of discriminating against clients based on pre-existing conditions, administration allies are calling attention to how broadly insurers interpret the term to maximize profits.
However, healthcare authorities may wish to look more critically at the system and cultural complexities which impact RCA investigations; the professional groupings and numbers of staff whom they select to attend training; and how these programmes are delivered and supported educationally in the longer term to maximize cost-benefits, organizational learning and safer patient care.
However, data presented here may be relevant to provide both patients and clinicians with the tools to make a more informed decision on short-term and inevitably long-term treatment to maximize patient benefit.
The issue is how management has a short-term outlook to maximize profits, instead of being focused on long-term value creation.
For drained peat soils, the best use options can vary from rewetting with reduced emission to efficient short term use to maximize the profit per amount of greenhouse gas emitted.
"While eBay has implemented (or begun to implement) many positive changes, it is our view that there will still be more investment needed in 2008 and that eBay would sacrifice near term financials to maximize the future for the company," said Peck.
Although Enron's compensation and performance management system was designed to retain and reward its most valuable employees, the system contributed to a dysfunctional corporate culture that became obsessed with short-term earnings to maximize bonuses.
While their invested assets may be smaller, we found their impact on market volatility may be large because leveraged investors trade much more frequently, moving money in and out of markets and countries looking for short-term opportunities to maximize the return on their portfolio.
To minimize the first term is to maximize the classifier margin, as in a standard SVM.
Pharmacologic agents that inhibit hair cell apoptosis would ideally act as early on as possible in the apoptosis pathway and offer long-term protection to maximize their efficacy.
