Reflections and Prospectives

Adjuvant strategies in breast cancer: new prospectives, questions and reflections at the end of 2007 St Gallen International Expert Consensus Conference.

Breast cancer detection and staging are constantly evolving as technologies improve. Breast cancer surgery is also undergoing continuous refinement, with the objective being to achieve optimal cosmetic results. Surgery has been combined with intraoperative radiation therapy to achieve the best local-disease control with minimal side-effects. The adjuvant strategy of treatment is a 'hot' issue i...

Subjective Networks: Prospectives and Challenges

Subjective logic is a formalism for representing and reasoning under uncertain probabilistic information, with an explicit treatment of the uncertainty about the probability distributions. We introduce subjective networks as graph-based structures that generalize Bayesian networks to the theory of subjective logic. We discuss the prospectives of the subjective networks representation and the ch...

Integrated health care networks in Latin America: toward a conceptual framework for analysis.

1 Servei d’estudis i Prospectives en Polítiques de Salut, Consorci Hospitalari de Catalunya, Avenida Tibidabo, 21, Barcelona 08022, Spain. Send correspondence and reprint requests to: María Luisa Vázquez, Servei d’estudis i Prospectives en Polítiques de Salut, Consorci Hospitalari de Catalunya, Avenida Tibidabo, 21, Barcelona 08022, Spain; telephone: 0034932531820; e-mail: [email protected] 2 Th...

Reflections on Health Tourism and Cross-Border Health Care

Prospectives for bio - oil upgrading via esterification over zeolite catalysts