HCV elimination: It will take a village and then some

It May Not Take a Village:\\

How Long Will It Take?

We present a method for approximating the expected number of steps required by a heuristic search algorithm to reach a goal from any initial state in a problem space. The method is based on a mapping from the original state space to an abstract space in which states are characterized only by a syntactic “distance” from the nearest goal. Modeling the search algorithm as a Markov process in the a...

How many will it take?

Dear editors, " He who kills himself is running after an image that he built of himself. One never kills himself only to exist.. "-André Malraux French writer (1901-1976) Last January, Quebec's National Public Health Institute published a portrait of the suicide status in the province. The media coverage highlighted the main conclusion that the overall annual suicide rates were decreasing and t...

How Long Will It Take to Write?

Even after all your hard work in carrying outthe study and writing the article, only theabstract may be read. It should therefore contain all the relevant information in the paper. To prevent it becoming uninformative ormeandering, manyjournals now have structured abstracts. If this is the case, then the journal's guidelines must be followed. In contrast, when no such guidelines...

Implementing CER: what will it take?

BACKGROUND Comparative effectiveness research (CER) is undeniably changing how drugs are developed, launched, priced, and reimbursed in the United States. But most organizations are still evaluating what CER can do for them and how and when they can utilize the data. A roundtable of stakeholders, including formulary decision makers, evaluated CER's possible effects on managed care organizations...