Clinical Support and Practice

Decision support in clinical practice

• the clinician is the central element in the decision support and decision making process. • there is a wide range of decision support to facilitate (NOT replace) clinical decision making. • decision support systems can and should teach and learn with the clinician. • the importance of accuracy, reliability and structure in the knowledge base and patient database. • there are benefits and prob...

Practice guidelines and other support for clinical innovation.

The ®rst two articles discussed how to formulate and pursue clinical questions and how to build a clinical reference library. Looking up clinical questions during or immediately after patient care can be an effective method of learning: however, you must ®rst realize your ignorance, then formulate a searchable question, ®nd the answer and change your practice as a result. Even when there is wid...

Distinguishing between clinical practice and clinical research: A Review of definitions and ethical issues

While Clinical research and clinical practice are closely related, distinguishing and maintaining the boundaries between them has form determining debates in contemporary bioethics. The most important implication of the research-practice distinction is to identify which clinical activities need review and oversight by research ethics committees. Adopting distinct approaches to clinical research...

Viable but Non-culturable Bacteria: Clinical Practice and Future Perspective

In this editorial, the importance of VBNC in clinical practice and future researches interests has been pinpointed. Accurate detection of VBNC, especially for major mentioned pathogens, is the future research gap. 

I-7: Introducing Blastocyst Culture and Transfer into Clinical Practice