to regional and national centres. Your investigations will consider, but not be limited to, the effects of the NHS and Community Care Act 1990 in a representative sample of NHS regions and boards. The four services you have selected are neonatal intensive care; cystic fibrosis; childhood leukaemia; and coronary artery bypass grafting." As for all its projects, the Clinical Standards Advisory Gr...

Conservation, protection and study of Architectural Heritage (AH) are based on the complete knowledge and documentation of its complex morphology, its architectonic components and all events related to the building. A key issue for a full recording of a monument is related to the cataloguing process, which is the action of registration, description and classification of Cultural Heritage (CH) a...

OBJECTIVES Health care professionals seem to be confronted with an increasing need for high-quality, timely, patient-oriented documentation. However, a steady increase in documentation tasks has been shown to be associated with increased time pressure and low physician job satisfaction. Our objective was to examine the time physicians spend on clinical and administrative documentation tasks. We...

Requirements traceability as being mandated by many standards governing the development of systems (e.g. IEEE/EIA 12207) is undoubtedly useful to software maintenance. To many organizations, it is viewed as a measure of system quality and is treated as an important component of their efforts towards achieving process improvement (CMM). However, not much elaboration on what types of information ...

5 Abstract The clear documentation of simulations is important for their communi6 cation, replication, and comprehension. It is thus helpful for such documentation to 7 follow minimum standards. The “Overview, Design concepts and Details” document 8 protocol (ODD) is specifically designed to guide the description of individualand 9 agent-based simulationmodels (ABMs) in journal articles. Popula...

Environmental planning requires constant tracing and revision of activities. Planners must be provided with appropriate documentation tools to aid communication among them and support plan enactment, revision and evolution. Moreover, planners often work in distinct institutions, thus these supporting tools must interoperate in distributed environments and in a semantically coherent fashion. Sin...

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) has recently emerged as an essential component of personalized cancer medicine due to its high throughput and low per-base cost. However, no sufficient guidelines for implementing NGS as a clinical molecular pathology test are established in Korea. To ensure clinical grade quality without inhibiting adoption of NGS, a taskforce team assembled by the Korean Socie...

Clinical practice guidelines must be implemented effectively if they are to influence the behavior of clinicians. The authors describe a model for computer-based guideline implementation that identifies eight information management services needed to integrate guideline-based decision support with clinical workflow. Recommendation services determine appropriate activities in specific clinical c...

The competent physical examination of patients and the safe and professional implementation of clinical procedures constitute essential components of medical practice in nearly all areas of medicine. The central objective of the projects "Heidelberg standard examination" and "Heidelberg standard procedures", which were initiated by students, was to establish uniform interdisciplinary standards ...

All urological standards of care are based on the past definition of the clinical importance of macroscopic hematuria. The aim of the study was to assess the phenomenon of iatrogenic hematuria in current clinical practice and analyze its origins in patients receiving anticoagulant drugs. Retrospective analysis of clinical documentation of 238 patients that were consulted for hematuria in 2007-2...