Optimising real time clinical librarian support to enhance the evidence base in radiotherapy clinical protocols

Real Time Clinical Decision Support System

Information technology (IT) and Web-based facility have become the major backbone of the modern hospital information systems (HIS) since the beginning of 21st century. Associated with the rapid evolution of medical informatics, the clinical decision support system (CDSS) is playing an important role to help physicians and other healthcare professionals in making decisions while determining diag...

Optimising growth in phenylketonuria: current state of the clinical evidence base.

Patients with phenylketonuria (PKU) must follow a strict low-phenylalanine (Phe) diet in order to minimise the potentially disabling neuropsychological sequelae of the disorder. Research in this area has unsurprisingly focussed largely on managing blood Phe concentrations to protect the brain. Protein requirements in dietary management of PKU are met mostly from Phe-free protein substitutes wit...

Using ECA Rules in Database Systems to Support Clinical Protocols

Computer-based support for clinical protocols or guidelines is currently a subject of a lot of interest within the Healthcare Informatics community. The Event-Condition-Action (ECA) rule paradigm, as supported in active databases and originating from production rules in expert systems, promises to be of great potential in supporting clinical protocols or guidelines. The problem being addressed ...

The Evidence Base of Clinical Diagnosis

willingness to communicate in the iranian context: language learning orientation and social support

why some learners are willing to communicate in english, concurrently others are not, has been an intensive investigation in l2 education. willingness to communicate (wtc) proposed as initiating to communicate while given a choice has recently played a crucial role in l2 learning. it was hypothesized that wtc would be associated with language learning orientations (llos) as well as social suppo...