Leading patient safety advocates assess progress in reducing medical error
...e nation's leading source for education, training, disseminating information, developing measures and facilitating the setting of standards for furthering patient safety efforts. Other non-governmental organizations have followed the lead of the AHRQ, adopting and establishing guidelines and procedures for furthe...Practice of defensive medicine widespread among physicians in specialties at high risk of lawsuits
...commonly prompt defensive medicine, developing and disseminating clinical guidelines that target common defensive practices, and reducing the financial and psychological vulnerability of individual physicians in high-risk specialties to shocks to the liability system," the researchers conclude....U of T study shows barriers to HIV vaccine acceptance
...iological barriers they are likely to encounter in disseminating a future vaccine." Through a series of focus groups with both health-care providers and women from at-risk populations in Los Angeles, Newman and colleagues from the University of California at Los Angeles and the Los Angeles County Health Departmen...Evolving trends in the treatment of vascular birthmarks
... experience is very wide," Dr. Hochman writes. "By disseminating the various viewpoints in this issue we hope to slowly help bridge that gap. Our patients will continue to benefit from the advances in management espoused by the authors until a consensus about treatment is eventually reached." In Description and An...Leading groups offer NIH direct links to journals to make research access easy for public
...rough peer reviewing, copyediting, publishing, and disseminating the articles. Because we are offering our materials at no charge to NIH, they will not need to cut research funding for cancer, Alzheimer's and other diseases in order to develop their own system, which would mimic ours. This plan is a win-win for ev...FAO workshop highlights sharing of satellite data
...ot otherwise exist. For instance, by providing and disseminating high-quality data sets of road networks, ports and airstrips, agencies will be able to better deliver food aid. JCR's Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe (INSPIRE), expected to be released later this year, will deliver integrated spatia...Wiley to assume publication of Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine
...ne, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. "We see great value in disseminating translational research to support personalized medicine and look forward to working with Mount Sinai to position Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine as a leading forum for the publication of clinical research highly relevant to clinical practice." Each ...Integrative Cancer Therapies journal accepted into prestigious ISI index
...s and patients alike understand ICT is a forum for disseminating information about groundbreaking and forward-looking work and I congratulate our editorial staff, editorial and advisory boards, and contributors to ICT for this important recognition." ...Emory and Finland Public Health Institute to build global health network with $20M Gates grant
...public health problems, but also in developing and disseminating public health solutions. The Gates Foundation grant will provide concrete tools for improving public health infrastructure and capacity internationally and establishing a global community for public health leadership and advocacy." The cornerstone ......blished much sooner than was possible before, thus disseminating important information much more rapidly. Authors are now encouraged to submit supplementary material, including video clips, animations, illustrations, and downloadable slide presentations, taking advantage of the full scope of available Web technolo...