Focus on Assessment

Assessment of Excellence in Procurement Study: Focus on Australia

Assessment and management of delirium: a focus on hepatic encephalopathy.

This purpose of this article is to promote comprehensive assessment, differential evaluation and provision of care which optimizes benefit while minimizing burden. Delirium is a debilitating neuropsychiatric complication that is highly prevalent in palliative care. It is multifactorial and may be related to infection, disease progression, metabolic state or medication toxicity. There are three ...

Operations assessment - focus on reality rather than the plan

Since no plan survives contact with reality, during the execution of a military operation it might be necessary to re-plan the operation. In order to decide whether, and when, re-planning should be initiated a feedback process is needed that provides the commander with information about the progress of the operation, and an assessment of whether the operation is leading towards the overarching ...

Time to focus on outcome assessment tools for childhood vasculitis

Childhood systemic vasculitides are a group of rare diseases with multi-organ involvement and potentially devastating consequences. After establishment of new classification criteria (Ankara consensus conference in 2008), it is now time to establish measures for proper definition of activity and damage in childhood primary vasculitis. By comparison to adult vasculitis, there is no consensus for...

Assessment of endothelial dysfunction: focus on atherothrombotic disease.

As the endothelium is crucial to cardiovascular disease, the accurate assessment of this organ is a valuable tool, especially if such assessments are clinically relevant. As functions of the endothelium focus on haemostasis and the maintenance of correct vascular tone, and dysfunction results in changes that promote thrombosis and hypertension, thus assessment of endothelial function therefore ...