Project Step-Up

Shared care: step down or step up?

ormal " shared care " in cancer remains controversial. It is promoted as offering patients care closer to home while, at the same time, reducing the burden on specialist services. Primary care practitioners are divided on the issue, some viewing shared care as enhancing their practice and others as another example of hospitals offloading work onto an already overloaded primary care sector. Ther...

Step Right Up

new to the field of perinatal drug dependence by including transcriptions of the discussions that followed each paper's presentation. The discussions bring to light the marked disagreements between different groups of investigators over such major issues as heroin's effect on chromosomal aberrations, the drugs to be used for treating drug dependent neonates and the incidence of physical abuse o...

Starting a Knowledge Engineering Project: A Step-By-Step Approach

Getting started on a new knowledge engineering project is a difficult and challenging task, even for those who have done it before. For those who haven’t, the task can often prove impossible. One reason is that the requirementsoriented methods and intuitions learned in the development of other types of software do not carry over well to the knowledge engineering task. Another reason is that met...

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Step up for quality research.

n response to calls for change from within and outside the scientific community, funding agencies, journals, and professional societies are developing new requirements to promote reproducibility and integrity in research. Amid this activity, the voices of academic institutions—both their leadership and rank-and-file faculty—have largely been quiet. Yet journals, societies, and funding agencies ...