In recent years, so-called "effectiveness studies," also called "real-world studies" or "pragmatic trials," have gained increasing importance in the context of evidence-based medicine. These studies follow less restrictive methodological standards than phase III studies in terms of patient selection, comedication, and other design issues, and their results should therefore be better generalizab...

The merits and drawbacks of privatization have been subjects of considerable debate among business-people, city leaders, and public employees alike. Indeed, each element of privatization—from its apparent cost-saving properties to its possible negative impact on minority workers—provokes strong reaction. About the only thing that everyone can agree on is that the trend has been enormously benef...

background: knowledge production and evaluation are two important functions of health research system (hrs). in this article, we aimed to reveal the correlation between evaluation of health research organizations and health knowledge production promotion. methods: a comprehensive evaluation system was developed to evaluate the academic performance of national medical science universities on an ...

lack of scientific and confirmed researches and expert knowledge about evaluation systems for clinical governance development in iran have made studies on different evaluation systems for clinical governance development a necessity. these studies must provide applied strategies to design criteria of implementing clinical governance for hospital's accreditation. this is a descriptive and compara...

Software reusability is an important and diicult problem in general, and this is in particular true for graph algorithms. The usual way to address reusability of graph algorithms is to provide a standard{setting library of data structures (incl. various kinds of graphs), on which graph algorithms may be implemented. In this working paper, we discuss the disadvantages to this approach, and we pr...

Compliant flooring aims to prevent fall-related injuries among high-risk older adults in long-term care, but uptake of compliant flooring in this setting is limited. We hosted a one-day stakeholder symposium to identify advantages and disadvantages of implementing compliant flooring in long-term care and the most pressing directions for future research from the perspective of key stakeholders. ...

The article theoretically substantiates the feasibility of implementing concept tax expenditures in Ukraine. It is proved that one problems economy an unreasonable approach to application benefits, which leads a significant budget deficit losses EU budgets by method lost revenues are analyzed. historical experience realization expenses generalized. requirements highlighted and main approaches b...