All hands on deck. Negotiation over gesture forms in collaborative discourse

All hands on deck!

Colorectal cancer: all hands on deck.

The past 50 years has seen substantial progress in our understanding of and in the management of colorectal cancer (CRC). Surveillance colonoscopy with resection of premalignant polyps has led to a decreased incidence of CRC even though compliance with the recommendations is suboptimal. Epidemiologic and genetic information allow us to identify individuals at risk for cancer and should allow us...

Tajik Child Health: All Hands on Deck

• The challenges of decreasing mortality among Tajik children are beyond the control of just the Ministry of Health (MoH) and health sector. In its stewardship role, the MoH must collaborate with other nonhealth sector stakeholders—like the food and agriculture, water and sanitation sectors -to use their combined and coordinated efforts in focusing on common objectives over the medium to long-t...

An Artificial Discourse Language for Collaborative Negotiation

Collaborations to accomplish common goals necessitate negotiation to share and reach agreement on the beliefs that agents hold as part of the collaboration. Negotiation in communication can be simulated by a series of exchanges in which agents propose, reject, counterpropose or seek supporting information for beliefs they wish to be held mutually. In an artificial language of negotiation, messa...

All Hands on Deck: Nurses and Cancer Care Delivery in Women’s Health

Access to expert gynecologic oncology care is hampered by geographic (1), racial (2), and socioeconomic disparities (3). As cancer care grows in complexity and expense (4) with an aging and increasingly diverse population, the Institute of Medicine and others have called for improvements in cancer care delivery and research (5, 6). The growing workforce gap in supply of gynecologic oncologists ...