Information systems in strategic planning in healthcare.

CEOs are faced with a wide variety of complex issues that threaten the very survival of the provider. In the early 1980s, the management at Harrisburg Hospital recognized that a solution was needed to deal with evolving trends and issues. That effort resulted in expanding the hospital to become a diversified but integrated healthcare delivery system--the Capital Health System.

Epidemiology of bovine brucellosis in the Mexicali Valley, Mexico: results of path analysis.

Twenty-eight known or hypothesized variables in the epidemiology of bovine brucellosis were examined by path analysis to determine the contribution of each variable to seropositivity of cattle in Mexicali, Mexico. The variables that contributed significantly to bovine seropositivity were area size of farm premises, percentage of animals on a premises that were inseminated artificially, local marketing of the products from a premises, size of investment in the livestock, whether or not dairying was the major agricultural activity of the premises, and the policy of the owner or manager with regard to disposal of reactor animals. The contributions of all other variables were insignificant.