Are updatable learned indexes ready?

Are Timed Automata Updatable?

Global Health Governance Challenges 2016 – Are We Ready?

The year 2016 could turn out to be a turning point for global health, new political realities and global insecurities will test governance and financing mechanisms in relation to both people and planet. But most importantly political factors such as the global power shift and “the rise of the rest” will define the future of global health. A new mix of health inequity and security challenges has...

Are acute stroke-ready hospitals ready?

I n 2005, an American Stroke Association Task Force report described the rationale and components of an integrated stroke system of care extending from primordial prevention through primary prevention, acute management, secondary prevention, and poststroke rehabilitation and recovery. 1 The principle that optimal patient outcomes depend on the consistent implementation of care processes that ar...

Paperless handover: are we ready?

To cite: Vidyarthi AR, Coffey M. BMJ Qual Saf Published Online First: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bmjqs-2015005027 Scribbling patient information into the margins of pieces of paper during handover is a time-honoured tradition. House staff carefully guard these lists in pockets of white coats, on clipboards, or tucked into shoulder bags. They pull them out once the beeper goes o...

Are you ready for SM358?

Read through these notes and work through all the questions in Sections 3 and 4. This is a useful exercise for all prospective students of the module, even those who have studied other Open University science and mathematics modules and who have followed the recommended prior study routes for SM358 (see Section 2 below). Working through these notes and questions will serve as a reminder of some...