The effect of autonomy, training opportunities, age and salaries on job satisfaction in the South East Asian retail petroleum industry

South East Asian petroleum retailers are under considerable pressure to improve service quality by reducing turnover. An empirical methodology from this industry determined the extent to which job characteristics, training opportunities, age and salary influenced the level of job satisfaction, an indicator of turnover. Responses are reported on a random sample of 165 site employees (a 68% response rate) of a Singaporean retail petroleum firm. A restricted multivariate regression model of autonomy and training opportunities explained the majority (35.4%) of the variability of job satisfaction. Age did not moderate these relationships, except for employees >21 years of age, who reported enhanced job satisfaction with additional salary. Human Capital theory, Life Cycle theory and Job Enrichment theory are invoked and explored in the context of these findings in the South East Asian retail petroleum industry. In the South East Asian retail petroleum industry, jobs providing employees with the opportunity to undertake a variety of tasks that enhanced the experienced meaningfulness of work are likely to promote job satisfaction, reduce turnover and increase the quality of service

Uptake of carotid artery stenting in England and subsequent vascular admissions: an appropriate response to emerging evidence?

ObjectiveWe report the uptake, length of stay and vascular readmission rates of carotid endarterectomy (CEA) and CAS among patients with symptomatic or asymptomatic carotid artery disease in the English National Health Service (NHS).MethodsRetrospective cohort study based on routinely collected Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) inpatient data. We identified individual admissions for CEA (n = 15996) or CAS (n = 632) between 2006 and 2009. Summary data were used to describe procedure volumes between 2009 and 2012. We analysed trends in procedure use over time and used ordinary least squares regression to evaluate patient, clinical and organisational characteristics associated with longer length of stay for revascularisation.ResultsCAS made up less than 5% of carotid revascularisation procedures; there was no trend for increasing use between 2006 and 2012. Patients treated with CAS were on average younger, lived in areas of higher deprivation and were more likely to have amaurosis fugax or a comorbidity of heart disease. CAS patients had a 19% (95% CI 14–24) shorter stay in hospital than CEA patients.ConclusionDespite the early promise of CAS and numerous randomised controlled trials evaluating efficacy, it has not been rapidly adopted in England. Cautious adoption may be appropriate given the higher periprocedural risk of stroke or death after CAS, particularly in recently symptomatic patients

Staphylococcus aureus and chronic folliculocentric pustuloses of the scalp - cause or association?

The aetiology of chronic scalp folliculitis (SF), folliculitis decalvans (FD), tufted folliculitis (TF), acne nuchae keloidalis (ANK), dissecting cellulitis (DCS) and other similar entities is not well established but these conditions share similar features including chronic scarring folliculocentric pustules localised to the scalp, response to antibiotic therapy and many show the presence of Staphylococcus aureus (SA). We have collectively termed these conditions chronic folliculocentric pustuloses of the scalp (CFPS), to emphasise their overlapping characteristics which suggest that there may be overlapping components in their pathogenesis, but acknowledge that individually there are distinguishing features which would imply that further contribution from distinct aetiological factors are likely to account for clinical variation in phenotype

Association of Cord Blood Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone Levels with Maternal, Delivery and Infant Factors

10.47102/annals-acadmedsg.2020471Annals of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore4912937 - 94

Author Correction: Anthropometric measures and HbA1c to detect dysglycemia in young Asian women planning conception: The S-PRESTO cohort (Scientific Reports, (2020), 10, 1, (9228), 10.1038/s41598-020-66147-x)

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Anthropometric measures and HbA1c to detect dysglycemia in young Asian women planning conception: The S-PRESTO cohort

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Maternal height, gestational diabetes mellitus and pregnancy complications

10.1016/j.diabres.2021.108978Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice178DRCP