Understanding population-level health trends is essential to effective public health. Therefore, the ONC has launched the Query Health Initiative, a large collaboration seeking to build a national network for distributed, population-level health queries across multiple platforms. The reference implementation will include i2b2, a widelyused data repository and analysis platform. Here we describe...

AIM Mothers use linking object to externalize the complex aspects of their relationship to the loss of their child. We analyzed the linking objects that mothers kept in memory of their sons who disappeared in the 1991-1995 war in Croatia or whose remains were uncovered and identified long time after they had gone missing. METHOD The case study of disturbed mourning included 26 mothers of Croa...