Inebriety from a Medical Viewpoint

Medical computers from the manufacturer's viewpoint.

The recent surge in the scope of computer applications in medical care has brought with it great strides in patient care, but it has also created a variety of concerns to manufacturers of medical software. The spate of product liability suits, with its potentially crippling effects in terms of product development, makes it increasingly vital that manufacturers engage in prospective planning, to...

Barriers of critical thinking in medical students’ curriculum from the viewpoint of medical education experts: A qualitative study

Introduction: The widespread developments of the twentyfirstcentury have been accompanied by the presentation ofintellectual patterns and theories and new achievements. Thesenew achievements emphasize the skill of thinking at high levels,especially in the educational system of universities. This skillis essential for medical students; therefore, the present study<b...

Evaluation of faculty members from viewpoint of medical students of Lorestan University of Medical Sciences

Introduction. Evaluation as one of the university management functions plays an important role in correct planning, successful execution of educational programs and improvement of educational quality in universities. Since continuing evaluation of the faculty members by students is one of the duties of the evaluation unit and on the other hand, knowledge of students about the importance of eval...

A medical viewpoint for prevention of crime.

Viewpoint Paper: Identifying Patient Smoking Status from Medical Discharge Records

The authors organized a Natural Language Processing (NLP) challenge on automatically determining the smoking status of patients from information found in their discharge records. This challenge was issued as a part of the i2b2 (Informatics for Integrating Biology to the Bedside) project, to survey, facilitate, and examine studies in medical language understanding for clinical narratives. This a...