Precision health: Advancing symptom and self-management science

Advancing Symptom Science Through Use of Common Data Elements.

BACKGROUND Use of common data elements (CDEs), conceptually defined as variables that are operationalized and measured in identical ways across studies, enables comparison of data across studies in ways that would otherwise be impossible. Although healthcare researchers are increasingly using CDEs, there has been little systematic use of CDEs for symptom science. CDEs are especially important i...

Advancing the science of organ donor management

There is an increasing burden of responsibility for intensivists to optimize donation potential after the declaration of brain death in patients with catastrophic brain injury. Best practice for donor management, if present, has been formed on low quality and mainly observational studies or consensus. In particular, research into the use of corticosteroids has shown varied benefit. The specific...

Advancing the science of health care costing.

The preceding articles in this volume amply illustrate and critically discuss the major issues in health care costing. This concluding article has 2 purposes. First, we synthesize and evaluate the main findings. Second, we identify the elements of a research agenda for improving the scientific soundness and relevance of health cost analyses for decision making. As noted, most health cost studie...

Informatics for Health 2017: Advancing both science and practice.

INTRODUCTION The Informatics for Health congress, 24-26 April 2017, in Manchester, UK, brought together the Medical Informatics Europe (MIE) conference and the Farr Institute International Conference. This special issue of the Journal of Innovation in Health Informatics contains 113 presentation abstracts and 149 poster abstracts from the congress. DISCUSSION The twin programmes of "Big Data"...

Advancing the science and practice of school-based health promotion.