Patient Reported Outcomes and Quality of Life in Cardiovascular Interventions
Patient Reported Outcomes and Quality of Life in Cardiovascular Interventions

Author: Thanos Athanasiou

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-10-14

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 3031098153

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This book provides a guide to the assessment of patient reported outcomes measures and quality of life in cardiovascular interventions, which have become a fundamental component of decision making in bedside medicine, health policy, health economics, and public health. Cardiac surgery, cardiovascular interventions, vascular interventions, and the core principles of quality of life are all covered. This book is the first book to demonstrate how clinicians and policy makers can easily get access to a single source of quality of life and patient reported outcomes measures evidence to help them make the best informed decisions in the field of cardiovascular interventions. This is a rapidly emerging field and the book would be relevant to doctors, healthcare scientists, allied-health professionals, healthcare managers, medical statisticians, healthcare economists, and consultants working in healthcare.

God Save Texas
God Save Texas

Author: Lawrence Wright

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2018-04-17

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 0525520112

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NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower—and a Texas native—takes us on a journey through the most controversial state in America. • “Beautifully written…. Essential reading [for] anyone who wants to understand how one state changed the trajectory of the country.” —NPR Texas is a red state, but the cities are blue and among the most diverse in the nation. Oil is still king, but Texas now leads California in technology exports. Low taxes and minimal regulation have produced extraordinary growth, but also striking income disparities. Texas looks a lot like the America that Donald Trump wants to create. Bringing together the historical and the contemporary, the political and the personal, Texas native Lawrence Wright gives us a colorful, wide-ranging portrait of a state that not only reflects our country as it is, but as it may become—and shows how the battle for Texas’s soul encompasses us all.

A Comparison of Economic Development Between Texas Cities Using the Ecomonic Development Tax 4A/4B and Texas Cities Not Using the Tax
A Comparison of Economic Development Between Texas Cities Using the Ecomonic Development Tax 4A/4B and Texas Cities Not Using the Tax

Author: Ravindra Kumar Jain

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages:

ISBN-13:

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Over the last three decades, economic development has been a major policy issue in the State of Texas. But after the amendment of the Development Corporation Act of 1979 and subsequent amendments, municipalities are using the provisions of Section 4A and 4B to enhance economic development. The purpose of this research is to determine if the Section 4A/4B adopting cities are doing better in employment and income growth than the non-adopting cities. Methods. Using the employment, income, population, and quality of life variables data for years 1990, 2000, and 2007, this study evaluates the impact of ED policies of Sections 4A/4B on employment and income growth. Multiple regression models are used including Wooldridge's Fixed Effects model. Results. The inference from all the models can be summarized that: (1) Sales tax revenues collecting cities under the provisions of Sections 4A/4B are not doing better than the non adopting cities both in employment and income growth; (2) Other ED policies such as TIFs, Freeport Zones, Property Tax abatements, etc; have statistically significant contribution at 90 percent confidence level. Conclusions. The research cast doubt on the efficacy of Sections 4A/4B economic development policies.

The Open-Ended City
The Open-Ended City

Author: Kathryn Holliday

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 2019-05-01

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 1477317619

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In 1980, David Dillon launched his career as an architectural critic with a provocative article that asked “Why Is Dallas Architecture So Bad?” Over the next quarter century, he offered readers of the Dallas Morning News a vision of how good architecture and planning could improve quality of life, combatting the negative effects of urban sprawl, civic fragmentation, and rapacious real estate development typical in Texas cities. The Open-Ended City gathers more than sixty key articles that helped establish Dillon’s national reputation as a witty and acerbic critic, showing readers why architecture matters and how it can enrich their lives. Kathryn E. Holliday discusses how Dillon connected culture, commerce, history, and public life in ways that few columnists and reporters ever get the opportunity to do. The articles she includes touch on major themes that animated Dillon’s writing: downtown redevelopment, suburban sprawl, arts and culture, historic preservation, and the necessity of aesthetic quality in architecture as a baseline for thriving communities. While the specifics of these articles will resonate with those who care about Dallas, Fort Worth, and other Texas cities, they are also deeply relevant to all architects, urbanists, and citizens who engage in the public life and planning of cities. As a collection, The Open-Ended City persuasively demonstrates how a discerning critic helped to shape a landmark city by shaping the conversation about its architecture.