832 To the Editor: The prevalence of asthma is increasing worldwide and the morbidity and mortality attributed to undiagnosed or inappropriately treated asthma remains unacceptably high. In 2000 the SAMJ published a guideline to help practitioners to diagnose and manage asthma. Even though guidelines such as this are freely available, many patients remain less than optimally medicated. The pres...

Scientific Workflow Managements Systems (SWfMSs), such as our own research prototype e-BioFlow, are being used by bioinformaticians to design and run data-intensive experiments, connecting local and remote (Web) services and tools. Preserving data, for later inspection or reuse, determine the quality of results. To validate results is essential for scientific experiments. This can all be achiev...

Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: Clinical Practice Guideline All health care providers, especially those with direct patient contact, have a unique opportunity to help tobacco users quit. Smokers cite a doctor's advice to quit as an important motivator for attempting to stop smoking. Materials to help you help them are available at this website, including the 2008 Update-Clinical Practice G...

This paper presents some of the results of an ample comparative study on public administration developed by the author. It contains five sections in which the main characteristics of the public administrations models in Finland and Sweden are looked at, a comparative analysis of the two is undertaken, on the basis of which substantial advantages and means of know-how transfer are identified, fr...

OBJECTIVES In order to implement clinical practice guidelines for the Department of Neonatology of the Heidelberg University Medical Center we developed a modular framework consisting of tools for authoring, browsing and executing encoded clinical practice guidelines (CPGs). METHODS Based upon a comprehensive analysis of literature, we set up requirements for guideline representation systems....

this study examines inventory management practices of flour milling manufacturing firms and their effects on operational performance. five flour milling manufacturing firms in lagos were used for this study. structured questionnaire was the major instrument for the collection of relevant primary data while descriptive statistics such as mean and standard deviation was deployed to analyzing the ...

Akin to the practice of medicine itself, judgments about evidence and recommendations are often complex and controversial. Since 1995, the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) has commissioned numerous practice guidelines under the auspices of the Practice Guidelines Committee. These guidelines have provided a distillation of available knowledge regarding the diagnosis a...

Ambiguity and vagueness in clinical practice guidelines reduce the likelihood of clinician adherence. They lead to inconsistent interpretation and, in turn, to inappropriate practice variation and medical errors. Resolving ambiguity and vagueness is an essential step in the computerized implementation of clinical practice guidelines. Successful resolution of ambiguity and vagueness requires an ...