Quality: More Complicated Than Ever

Data quality - more important than ever in the Internet age

The CODATA Constitution begins with a list of goals in its mission, and first on the list is "The promotion of the evaluation and, in general, the quality control of data ...." Data quality was foremost in the minds of the early leaders of CODATA. The first President, Frederick Rossini, had developed a program for systematic evaluation of thermodynamic data and had established a continuing data...

Understanding quality improvement is more important now than ever before.

With provider payments being adjusted for performance and emphasis being placed on value-based care, large health care systems are already developing the resources necessary to pursue quality improvement (QI) in their practices. This article explains why smaller and/or rural practices also need to learn about and implement QI.

Now more than ever, nurses need resilience.

I have been heartened over recent weeks by the many nurses and healthcare staff who have led the care of those caught up in the terrorist attacks in London and Manchester, as well as the catastrophic fire in London's Grenfell Tower.

Replication: Needed Now More Than Ever.

[Generalists are needed more than ever].

15 If today you want to keep up with basic and clin‐ ical research, you need to concentrate on a very small field and reach tremendous depths in this very field. And, actually, life is too short to also accumulate the knowledge necessary to do mean‐ ingful scientific work even on closely related top‐ ics. Hence, specialization is inevitable not only in research; it was a prerequisite for the de...