Toward a Consensus on Centralization in Surgery

A Review on Consensus Algorithms in Blockchain

Block chain technology is a decentralized data storage structure based on a chain of data blocks that are related to each other. Block chain saves new blocks in the ledger without trusting intermediaries through a competitive or voting mechanism. Due to the chain structure or the graph between each block with its previous blocks, it is impossible to change blocking data. Block chain architectur...

Toward a consensus on the QALY.

Earlier versions of the other articles in this Value in Health Special Issue, Moving the QALY Forward: Building a Pragmatic Road (articles 2–6) were presented at an ISPOR Development Workshop on “Moving the QALY Forward: Building a Pragmatic Road” held in Philadelphia from November 6–8, 2007. After the discussion of the articles, a workshop consensus group was formed, including representation f...

Cepheids: toward a Consensus?

Toward a consensus in protein structure nomenclature

In a recent article, published in Intrinsically Disordered Proteins, a valuable consensus view regarding the nomenclature for disordered proteins was presented.1 In this work the authors present a thoughtful and systemic review of terms that have been used in the literature to describe proteins that sample a heterogeneous set of structures during their biological lifetime. We agree that the ter...

Toward a world consensus on prevention of schizophrenia

Screening for preschizophrenia in the general population with the aim of preventing transition to full-blown illness is an epidemiological impossibility because a rare disease cannot be predicted. The lack of specificity resulting in abundance of false-positives can be remedied in part by using much more restrictive screening criteria that combine several indicators of risk for transition to sc...