Why clinical information standards matter

Clinical Skills Centers Standards

Introduction. Setting up “Clinical Skills Labs” has been started in some Iranian medical universities since five years ago. In an educational workshop for Clinical Skills Labs managers in January 2001, many managers stated that if there were standards for these centers it would help them define the necessities of the center. These standards would also make the basis for internal and external ev...

why does research evaluation matter?

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Why different trust relationships matter for information systems users

Why dysfibrinogenaemias still matter.

Thromb Haemost 2009; 102: 426–427 Congenital abnormalities of fibrinogen that result in functional defects have been important in discoveries of structure-function relations for this protein and correlations with thrombosis and bleeding, and more than 450 such so-called dysfibrinogenaemias have been identified, although most have only been characterised very superficially. Much is now known abo...

Why case reports matter

Our era is undoubtedly the era of “big data.” This digitized data is everywhere,but in thepracticeof arthroplastysurgery thisera ismost evident in how we commonly learn about surgical outcomes e joint registries, administrative databases, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Hospital Compare website. By collating or sampling “big data,” the potential bias of anecdotal results is dilu...