Evidence based budgeting is now necessary

Evidence-based research in nursing administration: the time is now.

The paper "Working in Canada or the United States: Perceptions of Canadian Nurses Living in a Border Community" by Cameron, Armstrong-Stassen, Rajacich and Freeman sheds new light on the recruitment and retention factors that influence the reasons nurses select certain work environments. In a border city where Canadian nurses have a choice between working in the United States or Canada, the res...

Exercise training following lung transplant is now evidence-based practice.

QUESTION In patients immediately following lung transplant, does three months of supervised exercise training confer changes in physical activity during daily life, functional exercise capacity, muscle force, health-related quality of life (HRQL), or forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV(1))? DESIGN Randomised, controlled trial with concealed allocation in which investigators responsibl...

Scientific evidence-based medical practice: where now?

A standard English language dictionary defines science as “The state of knowing: knowledge as distinguished from ignorance or misunderstanding”. The same dictionary defines scientific method as “principles and procedures for the systematic pursuit of knowledge involving the recognition and formulation of a problem, the collection of data through observation and experiment, and the formulation a...

Participatory Budgeting: An Evidence Review

Sharing public health data: necessary and now.

On May 20, 2010, after 15 years of research that cost US$40 million, Gibson and colleagues reported the creation of a synthetic bacterial cell at the J Craig Venter Institute (Rockville, MD, and San Diego, CA, USA) in Science. In this proof-of-principle study, the researchers used a computer to design a synthetic genome sequence that was based on the genome sequences of two laboratory strains o...