The Pan-Asian Resuscitation Outcomes Study (PAROS) clinical research network: what, where, why and how

Beacon Signals: What, Why, How, and Where?

Clinical audit: why, where and how?

a Instituto de Investigación, Hospital Universitario Doce de Octubre, Madrid, Spain b Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES/CIBER-ISCIII), Instituto de Investigación, Hospital Universitario Doce de Octubre, Madrid, Spain c Servicio de Neumología, Instituto de Investigación, Hospital Universitario Doce de Octubre, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red...

Implementation of a Dispatcher - assisted Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Trial in the Asia - Pacific ( Pan - Asian Resuscitation Outcomes Study

STUDY AIMS: To assess whether increased use of targeted temperature management (TTM) within an integrated healthcare delivery system resulted in improved rates of good neurologic outcome at hospital discharge (Cerebral Performance Category score of 1 or 2). METHODS: Retrospective cohort study of patients with OHCA admitted to 21 medical centers between January 2007 and December 2012. A standard...

Visual attention: the where, what, how and why of saliency

Attention influences the processing of visual information even in the earliest areas of primate visual cortex. There is converging evidence that the interaction of bottom-up sensory information and top-down attentional influences creates an integrated saliency map, that is, a topographic representation of relative stimulus strength and behavioral relevance across visual space. This map appears ...

The what, how, why, and where of self-construal.

Since the publication of Markus and Kitayama's pivotal article on culture and the self, the concepts of independent, relational, and interdependent self-construal have become important constructs in cultural psychology and research on the self. The authors review the history of these constructs, their measurement and manipulation, and their roles in cognition, emotion, motivation, and social be...