We Have Come a Long Way, Baby—But We Still Have a Long Way to Go

We still have a long way to go.

This paper presents the challenges involved for team members working on a research project from three different universities located in Melbourne and Brisbane. An advisory university was located overseas in Surrey, England. A variety of computer mediated technologies were used for online collaborations and discussions such as Skype, Elluminate Live!, Carrick Exchange and an Access Grid. Team co...

We Have Come a Long Way

Task Force on CKD – We have Come a Long Way

Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is an important medical condition where diagnosis, staging and monitoring is largely based on routine laboratory tests. During the last 15 years there have been many important changes in the clinical management of CKD described in key international guidelines. In order to successfully implement these guidelines, laboratories must collaborate with clinicians to provi...

We've come a long way... or have we?

Emergency contraception (EC) has come a long way since the days when Family Planning clinics and other services provided cut-up sections of pink oral contraceptive pill strips and a dose or two of an antiemetic in tiny sealed plastic bags to women who were lucky enough to know about this option. When evidence demonstrated the superiority of the progestogen-only regimen in 1998 1 , these plastic...

Antimicrobial stewardship in pediatrics: a good beginning but we have a long way to go.

It has been 7 years since publication of Guidelines for Developing an Institutional Program to Enhance Antimicrobial Stewardship. Progress has been made in some areas but we continue to struggle in others. Acknowledgment of the seriousness of emergence of antimicrobial resistance by both the academic community and, finally, the government raises hopes that relief from the dearth of new effectiv...