Rare Anemias: Are Their Names Just Smoke and Mirrors?

Smoke and Mirrors

News media are in a position to project certain perspectives on domestic violence while marginalizing others, which has implications for public understanding and policy development. This study applies discourse analysis to articles on domestic violence in two U.K. national daily newspapers published in 2001-2002 and 2011-2012 to evaluate evidence of change over a 10-year time span. The research...

Classical Statistics: Smoke and Mirrors

Smoke and Mirrors: China and India

Quality and Outcomes Framework: smoke and mirrors?

Since its inception in 2004 the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) has become embedded in the fabric of day-to-day general practice. Yet despite some of its tangible successes, the QOF's vulnerability to gaming poses challenges to its applicability as the dominant quality improvement framework in primary care. This paper questions whether high QOF scores amount to better care or simply the il...

Smoke and mirrors: deficiencies in disaster funding.

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