Impact Statements: So What? Who Cares?

Human Factors Engineering in HI: So What? Who Cares? and What's in It for You?

OBJECTIVES Human factors engineering is a discipline that deals with computer and human systems and processes and provides a methodology for designing and evaluating systems as they interact with human beings. This review article reviews important current and past efforts in human factors engineering in health informatics in the context of the current trends in health informatics. METHODS The...

What is cherry red, and who cares?

Menstrual cycle variation in mammographic breast density: so who cares?

So who cares? Is it really important that there is a 4% excess in the proportion of women with mammographically ‘‘extremely dense breasts’’ in the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle compared with the follicular phase? For that is what White et al. (1) have clearly shown in this issue of the Journal in a study based on an analysis of 2591 menstruating women who had screening mammograms in a hea...

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Who Cares What It Costs to Dispense a Medicaid Prescription?

Results of a 1992 Medicaid cost-of-dispensing study among North Carolina pharmacies are presented. The estimated statewide weighted average cost incurred by pharmacies to dispense a prescription was $5.37 in 1991. The variation in dispensing costs found among pharmacies of various sizes, organizational types, and locations is identified. Higher average dispensing costs were reported for large c...