* Clinical laboratories should be able to offer interpretation of the results they produce. * At a minimum, contact details for interpretative advice should be available on laboratory reports.Interpretative comments may be verbal or written and printed. * Printed comments on reports should be offered judiciously, only where they would add value; no comment preferred to inappropriate or dangerou...

This paper discusses the intellectual justification of scientometrics through the claim that it is part of the quest for a quantitative science of science. Initially, I will make a brief description of scientometrics’ historical background. Next, I will explain that those disciplines that have been satisfactorily mathematized always contain two distinct basic components: an axiomatic, defining ...

The report To Err Is Human, by the Institute of Medicine (1 ), has sparked much interest in establishing clinical error rates. The data in the report are focused primarily on medication errors, anesthesia errors, and other procedural errors. Errors associated with establishing the diagnosis, however, received little consideration. One reason is that diagnoses are often established by laboratory...

The foundation of culturally sensitive patient-centered palliative care is formed from one's social, spiritual, psychological, and physical experiences of serious illness. The purpose of this study was to describe categories and patterns of psychological, social, and spiritual healing from the perspectives of aging seriously ill African American (AA) elders. Using narrative analysis methodology...

The story of the widow in temple with her two small copper coins (Mark 12:41-44) is a familiar one, but recent scholarship has yielded surprisingly divergent array interpretative options. In particular, noting catchword χήρα (vv. 40,42,43) that links this episode to Jesus’s diatribe against scribes preceding pericope 38-40), argued, traditionally positive interpretation narrative, context requi...

a historical novel is a form of story-like narrative which is a combination of story and history. accordingly, we cannot easily comment whether, within this framework, it is the history that isbeing focused on by the author—as all the story’s elements are employed in the service of the historian—or history simplyplays an incidental role at the back stage of the story. the best exampleof the mix...

This essay explores how theoretical physics, narratology, and narrative itself deal with the idea that reality consists of a plurality of worlds. In physics, the existence of parallel universes has been postulated on the cosmic level to describe what lies on the other side of black holes and, on the level of subatomic particles, to avoid the paradoxes of quantum mechanics. In narratology, the p...

This article is a preliminary review of the prevailing approaches constitutional interpretation applied in notable judgments by Malaysian Apex court. The application various interpretive judiciary varies according to theories and canons interpretation. For purpose this review, qualitative method employed through doctrinal analysis case studies. It discovered that does not always correspond phil...

Introduction In contrast to the significant number of studies indicating the impairment of QoL in AR, the degree of impairment in Quality of Life (QoL) in NAR remains underexposed. Again in contrast to AR, almost no evidence-based therapies for NAR patients exist. We assessed QoL in NAR compared to healthy controls and AR patients as positive controls and investigated whether the use of treatme...

This paper explores the patterns of technology use in a global enterprise. We use the concept of narrative networks to understand interactions between technology and organizations and the emergent implications. The paper is based on empirical work undertaken in the context of offshoring electronic medical records and billing systems from a group of US physician practices to service providers in...