Health Technology Assessment and Evidence-Based Medicine: What Are We Talking About?

Health technology assessment and evidence-based medicine: what are we talking about?

This Value in Health Special Issue describes technology assessment (TA) programs in five countries. The primary purpose is to provide information about the ways coverage and related decisions are made in each country, and how TA is used to support those decisions. For this purpose each article stands on its own. Individually they are helpful to understand the decision-making processes, as well ...

Health System Resilience: What Are We Talking About? A Scoping Review Mapping Characteristics and Keywords

Background Health systems are based on 6 functions that need to work together at all times to effectively deliver safe and quality health services. These functions are vulnerable to shocks and changes; if a health system is unable to withstand the pressure from a shock, it may cease to function or collapse. The concept of resilience has been introduced with the goal of strengthening healt...

"Sudden death"--what are we talking about?

Sentiment Analysis - What are we talking about?

Automatic affect detection and classification from text is a complex task in Natural Language Processing , whose tackling requires not only the use of established methods in the field, but also the use of knowledge extracted from theories in Psychology, Cognitive Science, Social Psychology or Neuropsy-chology. For the past decade, there has been a large amount of research done in the field. Nev...

What We Are Talking about and What We Are Saying about It

In view of the relationships between theoretical, computational and corpus linguistics, their mutual contributions are discussed and illustrated on the issue of the aspect of language related to the information structure of the sentence, distinguishing ”what we are talking about” and ”what we are saying about it”.