Caring for VIPs: nine principles.

Caring for 'Very Important Patients'--Ethical Dilemmas and Suggestions for Practical Management.

The care of Very Important Patients (VIPs) is different from other patients because they may receive greater access, attention, and resources from health care staff. Although the term VIP is used regularly in the medical literature and is implicitly understood, in practice it constitutes a wide and heterogeneous group of patients that have a strong effect on health care providers. We define a V...

Caring for VIPs in the hospital: the ethical thicket.

Caring for colleagues, VIPs, friends, and family members.

Volume 87, Number 11 www.aafp.org/afp American Family Physician 793 Case Scenario I am a junior faculty member in an academic family medicine practice. My colleague informed me that his father, a renowned physician, recently moved to the area. My colleague’s father has reviewed my curriculum vitae and would like to establish care with me. Should I accept him as a patient? If so, how should I ap...

Automatische Bewertung von Übungsaufgaben in VIPS

Vips ist ein virtuelles Prüfungssystem und dient zur Verwaltung, Durchführung und Auswertung von Online-Übungen und Online-Klausuren. Der Schwerpunkt der Vips-Entwicklung liegt auf der automatischen Auswertung von Aufgaben, um demjenigen, der die Aufgaben stellt und beurteilen muss, möglichst viel Arbeit abzunehmen. Darüber hinaus ermöglicht Vips Übungen und Klausuren für die Studierenden in ei...

Virtual prints: Augmenting virtual environments with interactive personal marks

This paper introduces the concept of Virtual Prints (ViPs) as an intuitive metaphor for supporting interaction and navigation, as well as a number of additional tasks in virtual environments (VEs). Three types of ViPs are described: Virtual Footprints, which are used for tracking user navigation (position, orientation and movement), Virtual Handprints, which are used for tracing user interactio...