Who Should be Interviewed? A Response from Cluster Analysis

who should be interviewed? a response from cluster analysis

objective: this article presents an application of cluster analysis for social sciences researches especially those studies that have an interview as part of their data collection. this application is more suitable for sequential mixed method researchers who use quantitative data to frame subsequent qualitative subsamples for conducting interviews.  methods: in more detail, the algorithm (i.e.,...

Who Should be Interviewed in Surveys of Household Income?

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Who should be an author?

Over recent months I have been approached by authors of accepted or already published papers with requests to remove an author or to add an author. Typically, they think that this is a trivial request that can be easily accommodated with little explanation other than ‘after the manuscript was accepted we remembered that author X was actually away at the time we did the experiments and wrote the...

Should Priority Setting Also Be Concerned About Profound Socio-Economic Transformations? A Response to Recent Commentary

Paediatric stroke. Who should be treated?

The past decade has seen a dramatic increase in pediatric stroke research. However few studies have addressed antithrombotic safety or effectiveness. Three paediatric stroke guidelines combining research data with expert consensus have been published in the past five years. For most patients treatment recommendations are consistent. Newborns with arterial ischaemic stroke (AIS) rarely require a...

Who should be offered genetic screening?

General The conditions dealt with here are those where detection of women or couples at risk of having children with burdensome disorders with little or no curative treatment, is feasible. One objective of screening is avoidance of birth of affected individuals by identifying those at risk, prospectively. As important is the reassurance which can follow negative tests. Voluntary participation o...