Multicommunicating: a Practice Whose Time Has Come?

Option grids: an idea whose time has come?

The Practice Doctorate in Nursing: an idea whose time has come.

The practice-focused doctorate is an important alternative to research-focused doctorates in nursing. The goal of this article is to provide the reader with an understanding of the nature and potential benefits of the practice doctorate. After discussing the background of this doctoral degree and the development of the degree by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Task Force ...

On the Practice of Hakims in the North-Western Provinces

Br Uadiia Nath Roy, Asst. Surgeon, Aligurh. My lot has been cast in a part of the country where I have principally to deal with Mahomedans whose habit it is, during sickness, to resort to English medicine as the last resource after native medicines have failed to cure. I thus come a good deal into contact with the hakims concerning whose practice I have acquired some information, which I now pr...

Sperm DNA damage assessment: a test whose time has come.

Multiple techniques have been developed to measure the amount of sperm DNA damage in an effort to identify more objective parameters for evaluation of infertile men. We now have evidence to support that integrity of sperm DNA influences a couple's fertility and helps predict the chances of pregnancy and its successful outcome. The available tests of sperm DNA damage require additional large-sca...

Fair Processes for Priority Setting: Putting Theory into Practice; Comment on “Expanded HTA: Enhancing Fairness and Legitimacy”

Embedding health technology assessment (HTA) in a fair process has great potential to capture societal values relevant to public reimbursement decisions on health technologies. However, the development of such processes for priority setting has largely been theoretical. In this paper, we provide further practical lead ways on how these processes can be implemented. We first present the misconce...