Given the focus on health systems in the post-millennium development goal era and moving towards the sustainable development goals, there is a compelling need for a common framework for health policy and systems research ethics to guide researchers and facilitate review by research ethics committees. A consultation of global health policy and systems research and ethics experts was convened to ...

Background. Preoperative fasting (POF) is physiologically and precautionary important during anesthesia and surgery. POF from midnight has been practiced despite the recommended shorter practice. Objective. Assessing preoperative fasting among adult patients scheduled for elective surgery at Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH). Methods. A descriptive cross-sectional study involving 65 surgical pat...

Value speculation is currently widely used in processor designs to increase the overall number of instructions executed per cycle (IPC). Current methods use sophisticated prediction techniques to speculate on the outcome of branches and execute code accordingly. Speculation can be extended to the approximation of arithmetic values. As arithmetic operations are slow to complete in pipelined exec...

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providing a perfect instruction to authors can prevent most potential publication ethics errors. this study was conducted to determine the quality of ethical considerations in the instructions to the authors of iranian research scientific journals of medical sciences (accredited by the commission for accreditation and improvement of iranian medical journals) in october 2011. checklist items (n=...

Review boards responsible for vetting the ethical conduct of research have been criticised for their costliness, unreliability and inappropriate standards when evaluating some non-medical research, but the basic value of mandatory ethical review has not been questioned. When the standards that review boards use to evaluate research proposals are applied to review board practices, it is clear th...