BACKGROUND Access to medicines and the development of a strong national pharmaceutical industry are two longstanding pillars of health policy in Brazil. This is reflected in a clear emphasis by Brazil's Federal Government on improving access to medicine in national health plans and industrial policies aimed at promoting domestic pharmaceutical development. This research proposes that such polic...

ABBREVIATIONS CA-MRSA: community-acquired methicillinresistant Staphylococcus aureus CBC: complete blood cell count ED: emergency department EHR: electronic health record ICD-9: International Classifi cation of Diseases, Ninth Revision MRSA: methicillin-resistant S aureus SSTI: skin and soft tissue infection www.hospitalpediatrics.org doi:10.1542/hpeds.2012-0059 Address correspondence to David ...

The current popular methods of organizing and searching of governmental information resources was analyzed under the circumstance of building Practical e-government integrating website, in this paper, and its metadata was also discussed. In order to solve the problem of information segregate, the framework of e-governmental information resources management was proposed by using metadata. Furthe...

BACKGROUND Nearly 40 million persons in the United States were without health insurance for all of 2000. National health insurance would remedy this situation, and many believe the success of reform efforts in this direction may depend on physician support. OBJECTIVE To determine the general attitudes of U.S. physicians toward the financing of national health care. DESIGN Cross-sectional st...

Context and aims: The Onsala twin telescopes (OTT) are two 13 m located at the Space Observatory in Sweden. With dual linear polarized broad-band (3-14 GHz) receivers, they part of next generation Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) Global Observing System (VGOS) for geodesy astrometry. In addition to purely geodetic data products, VGOS will regularly produce full-polarisation images hundr...

Œe amount of data published openly on the web is increasing rapidly. Most people either use web search or specialised data portals, which are repositories of datasets, to search for data. Most data portals today use similar faceted search interfaces. In this paper we focus on how a large governmental data portal in the UK supports users in conducting complex search tasks involving data. Based o...

E-government includes fast and improved citizen service from a quantitative and qualitative point of view, as well as the restructuring and reengineering of organizations and their services, through the increased usage and exploitation of the capabilities and services of ICT’s and the Internet. The escalation of the e-government services begins with easy access to governmental information and p...

The presentation is about the design of the backbone of the Estonian governmental information systems X-Road. The system is already ten years old and has proven to be useful and reliable. The presentation describes the vision of the system, the requirements analysis process and the technical design decisions. The vision was to create a web-services based unified access to all governmental regis...