The 2007 Society of Thoracic Surgeons and the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists Clinical Practice Guideline for Perioperative Blood Transfusion and Blood Conservation in Cardiac Surgery was recently promulgated and has received much attention. Using a survey of cardiac anesthesiologists and perfusionists' clinical practice, we assessed the current practices of perfusion, anesthesia, a...

OBJECTIVE Neonatal care providers from 5 institutions formed a multidisciplinary focus group with the purpose of identifying potentially better practices, the implementation of which would lead to a reduction in the incidence of intracranial hemorrhage and periventricular leukomalacia in very low birth weight infants. METHODS Practices were analyzed, 4 benchmark neonatal intensive care units ...

An introduction and overview of the Special Issue on Evidence-based Best Practices in the Public Vocational Rehabilitation Program that Lead to Employment Outcomes is provided and briefly discussed.

This paper presents a single case study reporting the experiences of introducing extreme programming (XP) in a small development project at Online Telemarketing in Lund, Sweden. The project was a success despite the fact that the customer had a poor idea of the system required at the start of the development. This success is partly due to the introduction of practically all of the XP practices....

This article builds upon earlier research (McDaniel & Fiore, 2010) in which the authors presented case studies focused on the design and development of two original ethical learning video games. Through this case study and a review of relevant literature, the authors explored the content creation of, and theoretical rationale for, the design and development of ethics games. Both games were gear...

A major consequence of years of exclusion and neglect is that past attempts to change the social and economic conditions of Afro Latin American (AFLA) Communities have often been hampered by low selfesteem and significant degrees of internal apathy. This was often coupled with a deep sense of alienation from many of the regional and national institutions that are mandated to direct programs and...

We describe a prototype system we have developed that incorporates best practices identified from a 2003 study of both public and private E-tax filing websites hosted in the USA. Our motivation is to investigate the current low functionality and low penetration usage of online tax filing, an increasingly important webapplication. We identify critical security and usability features in current u...

In recent years, IT project failures have received a great deal of attention in the press as well as the boardroom. In an attempt to avoid disasters going forward, many organizations are now learning from the past by conducting retrospectives—that is, project postmortems or post-implementation reviews. While each individual retrospective tells a unique story and contributes to organizational le...

The Math Educational Resources (MER) wiki is an open online learning resource hosted at The University of British Columbia (UBC), aimed at providing math education resources for students and instructors at UBC. In this paper, we will discuss the motivation for creating this resource on the MediaWiki platform, key features of our implementation that support student learning (including the evolut...

OBJECTIVE To identify factors associated with the quality of primary medical care incentivised under the new UK general medical services contract. DESIGN Cross sectional study. SETTING NHS Ayrshire and Arran area, Scotland. PARTICIPANTS 60 general practices. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Quality scores reflecting the total points achieved on the 10 clinical domains and holistic care. Univariate...