Guidelines Drafted, Still Not Released

A Drafted PM Glossary

Most dictionaries and glossaries of terms today are not structured. They contain many different terms, arranged in alphabetical sequence, with little or no attempt to show how the terms are related. A new IFIP "Glossary of Terms used in Production Control" has now been produced, which is structured. It is based on a classification of Production Management, of which Production Control is a part,...

Guidelines, guidelines and more guidelines: And we still do not know how to follow-up patients with breast cancer

BACKGROUND A major challenge facing us is the provision of health care and appropriate allocation of available resources for the treatment of patients with breast cancer. This is of particular concern in the provision of follow-up care. With the increasing incidence of breast cancer and the improvements in survival which have resulted in up to 75% of patients surviving for more than five years,...

PONV prevention: still not enough

Pharma twitters cautiously before advertising guidelines are released.

tion, but much of what they are finding is incorrect or out of date. According to Katie Lubenow, Senior Manager of Corporate Communications for AstraZeneca: “Health care companies have an obligation to responsibly engage in social media to help patients, caregivers, and prescribers make informed decisions about our medicines. It’s important for us because in our absence, consumers could turn to...

The Rasch Model Still Does Not Fit

Certain criticisms of the use of the Rasch model have been queried in a paper by Bryce. We argue that these criticisms not only remain valid, but are reinforced by recent research on latent trait models. In particular, Bryce fails to present a clear conceptual argument and adopts a very inefficient procedure for testing empirically the fit of the Rasch model. A paper by Bryce (1981) takes issue...