Special issue on health care simulation

Special Issue on Health-Care Research

Health-care research, in all its forms, is an important and tool for health-care organizations to improve their contribution to society and better account for the impact of the services necessary undertaking. As medical science advances and technological breakthroughs are made, quality delivered to the community at large. Health-care organizations must not only look outward and of diagnostic me...

Special Issue on Driving Simulation

These last years have witnessed the advent of several high performance driving simulators at automotive companies and universities all over the world as well as a large use of low-cost simulators for a growing number of human factors, vehicle engineering, road traffic, and training applications. The rendering capabilities and applicability of driving simulators thus became a crucial issue both ...

Health care research that delivers: introduction to the special issue on cognitive factors in health care.

Research that addresses human factors issues in health care has made good progress since the landmark 1999 Institute of Medicine report on medical error (Kohn, Corrigan, & Donaldson, 1999), yet patient safety remains a persistent challenge for the health care system. While this challenge reflects many factors, we focus on the need for research that is sufficiently comprehensive to identify thre...

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Eggs and Health Special Issue

In 1968, the American Heart Association recommended the consumption of no more than 300 mg/day of dietary cholesterol and emphasized that no more than 3 eggs should be eaten per week, resulting in substantial reductions in egg consumption, not just by diseased populations but alsobyhealthyindividuals,andmoreimportantlybypoorcommunitiesinundevelopedcountieswho were advised against consuming a hi...