REIMBURSATION OF MEDICINES: PAPER RECIPES WILL BE REPLACED BY ELECTRONIC ONES

Will this paper ever be cited?

It is an accepted fact of academic life that some papers, in whatever discipline and wherever published, will never be cited. Empirical support for this can be found in studies such as those reported by Glanzel (1992), Rousseau (1994), and Egghe (2000) where the distribution of the time of first citation is investigated. In all cases, it is assumed that never-citation is connected with the perc...

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Research Paper: Predicting the Adoption of Electronic Health Records by Physicians: When Will Health Care be Paperless?

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was threefold. First, we gathered and synthesized the historic literature regarding electronic health record (EHR) adoption rates among physicians in small practices (ten or fewer members). Next, we constructed models to project estimated future EHR adoption trends and timelines. We then determined the likelihood of achieving universal EHR adoption in the ne...

Electronic paper - can it be real ?

Some people have used the phrase 'electronic paper' to suggest that electronic information displays may replace the printed page. Progress towards the ideal of electronic paper is reviewed along several dimensions: the technologies, such as the display surface, the appearance, such as the page layout, and the function, such as the styles of interaction, that are currently available and may beco...

Diagnostic imaging methods applied in long-term surveillance after EVAR. Will computed tomography angiography be replaced by other methods?

Endovascular implantation of a stent graft in the abdominal aorta (endovascular aneurysm repair - EVAR) is a widely accepted alternative to open surgery in treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysms. Although EVAR is connected with a significant reduction in the risk of peri- and post-operative complications, it does not eliminate them totally. Long-term surveillance of post-EVAR patients is aimed...