Scanning the horizon

The need for environmental horizon scanning.

Policymakers and practitioners in most fields, including conservation and the environment, often make decisions based on insufficient evidence. One reason for this is that issues appear unexpectedly, when with hindsight, many of them were foreseeable. A solution to the problem of being insufficiently prepared is routine horizon scanning, which we describe as the systematic search for potential ...

Horizon Scanning: Identifying and Estimating Future

Introduction Healthcare Horizon Scanning is a systematic process used to identify novel health care interventions that address significant unmet medical needs. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) established the first publicly funded Healthcare Horizon Scanning program in the US in the fall of 2010. While the original purpose of the program was to inform AHRQ’s research priori...

Horizon-scanning the ostrich industry with bibliometric indicators

Predictive modelling of publication activity is a new concept in agricultural analysis. This study illustrates the potential for identifying and quantifying patterns from the past 42 years of ostrich husbandry research. Studies on ostriches have been influenced considerably by production challenges, opportunities and threats, and owing to the large size of and variations in data and the monopol...

Horizon Scanning Technology Horizon Scanning Report Intraoperative ultrasound for breast lesion localisation during breast conserving surgery (lumpectomy)

Horizon Scanning Technology Prioritising Summary Delayed enhancement MRI

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