Finding the Evidence

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Finding and applying evidence during clinical rounds: the "evidence cart".

CONTEXT Physicians need easy access to evidence for clinical decisions while they care for patients but, to our knowledge, no investigators have assessed use of evidence during rounds with house staff. OBJECTIVE To determine if it was feasible to find and apply evidence during clinical rounds, using an "evidence cart" that contains multiple sources of evidence and the means for projecting and...

A Finding , evaluating the best evidence

s we discussed in the May/June 2009 issue of the Banfield Journal, evidence-based veterinary medicine (EBVM) uses the best available research evidence along with clinical expertise, client preferences, patient needs and available resources to make the most informed clinical decisions. EBVM may suggest the best approach to a specific clinical problem, but it is the practitioner who integrates al...

Airway clearance therapy: finding the evidence.

Disease processes can impair ciliary function, alter secretion production and mucus rheology, and interfere with the cough reflex. Airway clearance therapy has been a cornerstone of therapy aimed at minimizing the devastating effects of airway obstruction, infection, and inflammation due to mucus stasis on the conducting airways and lung parenchyma. Although challenges to performing clinical st...

Analyzing registry, log files, and prefetch files in finding digital evidence in graphic design applications

The products of graphic design applications leave behind traces of digital information which can be used during a digital forensic investigation in cases where counterfeit documents have been created. This paper analyzes the digital forensics involved in the creation of counterfeit documents. This is achieved by first recognizing the digital forensic artifacts left behind from the use of graphi...