BACKGROUND Many large studies have complex advisory committee structures, yet there is no empirical evidence regarding their optimal composition, scope and contribution. The aim of this study was to inform the committee and advice infrastructure for future research studies. METHODS In the context of a five-year study funded by the UK National Institute for Health Research, three advisory comm...

Financial/nonfinancial disclosures: The author has reported to CHEST the following conflicts of interest: Dr Brown chairs the Polysomnography Practice Advisory Committee of the New Mexico Medical Board and serves on the New Mexico Respiratory Care Advisory Board. He currently receives no grant or commercial funding pertinent to the subject of this article.Reproduction of this article is prohibi...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to describe patients' and relatives' complaints to the local Patients' Advisory Committee about their encounters and communication in health care. METHODS Complaints (n=105) regarding patients' and relatives' dissatisfaction with communication and encounters in health care, registered at a local Patients' Advisory Committee between 2002 and 2004, were inclu...

In September 1990, the leaders of 71 countries, including Canada, gathered at the United Nations for the world summit for children. World leaders committed their governments to act on behalf of children and signed a declaration establishing a number of child health goals with respect to disease eradication or reduction and immunization coverage. This resulted in Health Canada’s commitment to su...

Dr. Tyler: We feel that disclosure annually by individuals supports our process. We ask our P&T committee members to declare whether or not they have any conflicts of interest. The disclosures are shared with the committee but are also reviewed by a separate committee. Some members may have relationships with industry, such as serving on advisory boards, receiving research funding, or receiving...

IN MAY 1973, 'Health Trends', a publication of the Department of Health and Social Security and the Welsh Office, included an article by the Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Distinction Awards in Great Britain on the work of the Committee with particular reference to the Procedures of Selection. In Northern Ireland, with its number of consultants rather less than one-thirtieth that of Grea...

An advisory committee with common values and asymmetric information provides a recommendation to a decision maker facing a binary choice. We investigate the effect of a transparency requirement—requiring committee members’ actions to be observable—on the committee’s ability to influence the decision maker. We show that unless the preferences of the committee and decision maker are sufficiently ...

Member, Medical Library Committee, Yale University School of Medicine, 1917, 1920, 1927-44; Chairman, 1917, 1932-41. Member of the Beaumont Medical Club; President, 1943-44. Member of the Advisory Board, Historical Library, Yale Medical Library, 1939-44. Member of Library Committee, Yale University. Member, Library Associates, Yale University. Member of the Executive Committee, Division of Biol...