OBJECTIVE To determine whether text mining can accurately detect specific follow-up appointment criteria in free-text hospital discharge records. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Mayo Clinic Rochester hospitals. PARTICIPANTS Inpatients discharged from general medicine services in 2006 (n = 6481). INTERVENTIONS Textual hospital dismissal summaries were manually reviewed to determine...

BACKGROUND/AIM There is growing concern regarding the need for screening of older drivers. The objective of this study was to determine whether the DriveABLE Competence Screen, a computerised test, predicts on-road driving outcome in clients referred for a driving assessment. METHODS This retrospective study evaluated the predictive validity of pre-road testing using the DriveABLE Screen. Fif...

Scientific research is increasingly dependent on publicly available information and data sharing. So far, the best practices to ensure that data is accessible and shareable has been to deposit it in public repositories. However, these repositories often fail to implement mechanisms that measure data quality, which could lead to improving the discoverability of existing data, and contribute to i...

Fraternal correction (“correctio/correptio fraterna”), or love-motivated edification of the sin­ner, aimed at his repentance and based on gospel fragment Matt. 18:15–17, was a part everyday practices in early Christian monastic communities; later it re­ceived theological interpretation justification writings Augustine, Alexander Hales, Thomas Aquinas, William Ockham, Jean Gerson, Modern scholas...