Where is smoking research published?

Where is Patient Safety Research and Practice Heading? A Response to Recent Commentaries

Designated smoking areas in streets where outdoor smoking is banned.

Although Japan has been a signatory to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control since 2004, progress in translating the recommendations into national policy has been limited. Globally, outdoor smoking bans cover outdoor dining areas, beaches, public parks, schools, etc. In Japan, most of existing outdoor smoking bans allow designated smoking areas (DSAs) in the no-smoking zones, thus limitin...

Smoking, not smoking: how important is where you live?

ISSUE ADDRESSED To explore and describe the social-environmental influence upon the likelihood of smoking tobacco for the Australian experience, in particular, Victoria. METHODS A multilevel (hierarchically structured regression) method was used. The micro-level units (characteristics of individuals) came from the annual surveys conducted by the Cancer Council of Victoria from 1990-97. The de...

Is most published research really false?

There has been an increasing concern that most published medical findings are false. But what does it mean to be false? Here we describe the range of definitions of false discoveries in the scientific literature. We summarize the philosophical, statistical, and experimental evidence for each type of false discovery. We discuss common underpinning problems with the scientific and data analytic p...

Research on teaching nursing: where is it?