We developed a time-oriented, skeletal plan-representation language called Asbru [1] used to represent clinical protocols. It is a modeling language which supports both the design and the execution of skeletal plans by a human executing agent other than the original plan designer. During the design phase, Asbru allows to express durative actions and plans caused by durative states of an observe...

Summary Diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis in hospitals is poor. We compared patient outcomes before and after implementation of a clinical protocol for lowtrauma fractures. Patients in the pathway were more likely to receive information about osteoporosis or osteoporosis medications. Therefore our clinical pathway is effective in improving osteoporosis information and treatment. Introduct...

Decentralised clinical trials (DCT) use technology, processes, and services to reduce or eliminate the need for onsite visits. Use of DCT components within is becoming widespread protocols are pivoting from using as rescue tools during COVID-19 pandemic including them integrated decentralised research methods. To date, there no consolidated guidance what component content should be included in ...

Background: Economic policy determines the allocation of funds and provides the framework within which health services are initiated, maintained or abandoned. Its implementation introduces financial incentives/disincentives likely to influence the attitudes and/or conduct of the people involved. The literature review presented in this article documents the existence of personal financial intere...

The February 2013 issue of the IJE included our study which used culpability analysis to examine the association of cellphone use with motor vehicle crashes. In a commentary in the same issue, Sanghavi stated that ‘culpability analysis won’t help us understand crash risk due to cellphones’. Sanghavi’s categorical rejection of culpability analysis is unfortunate and seems based on a misunderstan...

Interest has increased in the use of arterial conduits for CABG significantly in most major cardiac surgery centers around the world, because the number of patients receiving arterial grafts and our knowledge about the biologic characteristics of arterial grafts have increased. In addition, more advanced clinical protocols for the use of grafts have been developed and midterm results with alter...