Every Child Ready to Read: ECRR Outside the Library: Providing Meaningful Family-Focused Community Outreach

Providing family support through community guides.

The Family Support Opportunities program in the state of Washington has a unique component. People with extensive knowledge of local communities, referred to as community guides, were made available to all families enrolled in the program. Community guides assisted families by seeking information about community resources that families needed and helping families connect to those resources. Res...

Learning what to read: Focused machine reading

Recent efforts in bioinformatics have achieved tremendous progress in the machine reading of biomedical literature, and the assembly of the extracted biochemical interactions into large-scale models such as protein signaling pathways. However, batch machine reading of literature at today’s scale (PubMed alone indexes over 1 million papers per year) is unfeasible due to both cost and processing ...

From the laboratory to the community: a commitment to outreach.

Background: Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) infection in blood donors could represent a risk for transmission in blood recipients. There is scarce information about the epidemiology of T. gondii infection in blood donors in Mexico. Therefore, we sought to determine the prevalence of T. gondii infection and associated sociodemographic and behavioral characteristics in a population of healthy blood...

Are students ready for meaningful use?

Background The meaningful use (MU) of electronic medical records (EMRs) is being implemented in three stages. Key objectives of stage one include electronic analysis of data entered into structured fields, using decision-support tools (e.g., checking drug-drug interactions [DDI]) and electronic information exchange. Objective The authors assessed the performance of medical students on 10 stage-...

JCAHO survey: being ready every day.