As a new millennium approaches, humans and computers are interacting on an unprecedented scale and style. Conservative estimates suggest that in excess of 30 million people are internationally interconnected via the World Wide Web (GVU 7th WWW User Survey, 1995), and such figures continue to grow at an exponential rate. Unsurprisingly, the very nature of the internet has made it tantalizing as ...

Reporting guidelines have become important tools in health research. They improve the accuracy, completeness and transparency of reporting most important aspects of research studies [1]. This is particularly important not only for accurate evaluation of the methodological quality of research and validity of the results, but also increases the quality of evidence synthesis from health research f...

The American Chemical Society serves the chemistry profession and society at large in many ways, among them by publishing journals which present the results of scientific and engineering research. Every editor of a Society journal has the responsibility to establish and maintain guidelines for selecting and accepting papers submitted to that journal. In the main, these guidelines derive from th...

This document provides some minimal guidelines (and requirements) for writing a research paper. Issues related to the contents, originality, contributions, organization, bibliographic information, and writing style are briefly covered. Evaluation criteria and due dates for the research paper are also provided.

The Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) has responsibility for organizing groups to investigate research topics related to the Internet protocols, applications, and technology. IRTF activities are organized into Research Groups. This document describes the guidelines and procedures for formation and operation of IRTF Research Groups. It describes the relationship between IRTF participants, Rese...

Research aimed to foster the understanding of causes and consequences of mental disorders and to improve their outcome should be a priority in the agenda of clinicians, researchers and health policy makers. Published guidelines for research in Psychiatry have highlighted main requirements, which will be summarized and discussed in the presentation. Research in Psychiatry has to conform to ethic...

Many medicines and devices used for the healthcare of children are unlicensed and untested for use in paediatrics, and clinicians often have to rely on evidence in adults that may not be generalisable to children. 2 There are a number of reasons why evidence in adults cannot always be safely extrapolated to children, including different pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic processes, and drug sa...

After almost a year of discussion and debate, Harold Varmus, MD, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has proposed guidelines under which federally funded scientists can pursue research using human pluripotent stem cells. The issue has been politically charged. Conservative members of Congress have gone on record against the use of the cell cultures because they believe it viola...

Qualitative research methods could help us to improve our understanding of medicine. Rather than thinking of qualitative and quantitative strategies as incompatible, they should be seen as complementary. Although procedures for textual interpretation differ from those of statistical analysis, because of the different type of data used and questions to be answered, the underlying principles are ...