Doing It Right: OT Meeting Population Needs with COVID-19

Tool Dissemination Doing It Right

B iomedical computing at academic research centers has been compared to a cottage industry. Lots of individuals work away on their focused research projects, generating useful algorithms. But quite often, the knowledge gained is lost when researchers move on to new projects. Yes, they might post their code on Web sites. But is it useful to anyone else without support and documentation? And how ...

Perioperative cardiac risk reduction: doing it right.

Imaging of parathyroid lesions with radionuclides - Is it worth doing?

Parathyroid adenomas, or hyperplasia may be present in patients with hypercalcemia. Treatment Is by surgical excision, but about 10% of the lesions may be In ectopic locations. Pre-operative localization of the lesions with non-lvasive imaging, using radionuclides, ultrasound, CT, or MR], may simplify surgery, and reduce patient morbidity. However, the reports of the accuracy of the curre...

Attributing Creative Agency: Are we doing it right?

When contemplating the creativity of computational systems, a host of factors have been taken into consideration, many of which people have attempted to measure or otherwise operationalise: novelty, value, P-creativity versus H-creativity, exploration versus transformation, the subjective evaluation and contextualisation of the artefact, and so on. Whilst of equal importance, the systematic and...

Pre-Transfusion Serological Testing: Are we Doing it Right?

Pre-transfusion testing is performed to ensure the normal survival of transfused red blood cell products i.e. to prevent hemolytic transfusion reaction via immune-mediated mechanism [1]. The serological part of pre-transfusion testing includes; ABO group and Rh (D) type, antibody screening and crossmatching [2]. Antibody screening is included to detect unexpected antibody and was first introduc...