Book: Demanding Medical Excellence

Collaboration and excellence in osteopathic medical research.

Manion • Editorial A noted in previous contributions to JAOA—The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association (2005;105:19), the Student Osteopathic Medical Association (SOMA) is “[commited] to promoting student involvement in research at all the colleges of osteopathic medicine.” Currently, two student awards are acknowledged each fall at the AOA Research Conference, an event that takes pla...

The long wait for medical excellence.

In October 1997 the book Demanding Medical Excellence: Doctors and Accountability in the Information Age provided a pathbreaking examination of the quality of American health care. It documented rampant medical error and the absence of evidence-based practice, highlighted the potential of electronic health records (EHRs), endorsed what is now known as value purchasing, and showed how patients c...

American medical education: the evolution of excellence.

*Corresponding author: Frank A. Chervenak, New York Presbyterian Hospital, 525 East 68th Street, J-130, New York, NY 10065, USA, Tel.: +1 212 746 3184, Fax: +1 212 746 8960, E-mail: [email protected]; and Weill Cornell Medical College, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, New York, NY, USA Shari E. Gelber and Debra Taubel: Weill Cornell Medical College, Department of Obstetrics and Gy...

Text-book of Medical Treatment

Why Assessing Relevance in Medical IR is Demanding

This study investigates if and why assessing relevance of clinical records for a clinical retrieval task is cognitively demanding. Previous research has highlighted the challenges and issues information retrieval systems are faced with when determining the relevance of documents in this domain, e.g., the vocabulary mismatch problem. Determining if this assessment imposes cognitive load on human...