A colleague of mine who curates a social media site on Cloud Computing once told me: “It’s getting harder and harder to find articles about cloud. People are writing about cloud-related technologies but not much about cloud computing.” This supports a saying we have in the office: “Cloud computing is computing.” For those of us who have been in the industry a while, it has been a quick and comp...

Background: Emphasis on revise and provide new methods of evaluation in medical colleges are widely increasing. Evaluation Methods based on clinical practice and students’ performance appraisement in health care system and in medical student is introduced as an effective method in some studies. Methods: The aim of this study was to consider the usefulness of a new method to evaluate the medical...

Background Awareness of pharmacists about counterfeit drugs is necessary for health improvement in community. The purpose of the present study is to assess the knowledge and measure the professional attitude and practice of Iranian pharmacist about counterfeit drugs. In August 2008, a knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) study was performed in a national sample of 794 pharmacists who particip...

Background Awareness of pharmacists about counterfeit drugs is necessary for health improvement in community. The purpose of the present study is to assess the knowledge and measure the professional attitude and practice of Iranian pharmacist about counterfeit drugs. In August 2008, a knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) study was performed in a national sample of 794 pharmacists who particip...

BACKGROUND Clinical practice guidelines (CPG) are widely used as tools for improving quality of health care. Guidelines developed elsewhere, can be adapted using a valid and systematic process. AIM To describe the methodology used in the process of adaptation of a guideline for the management of adults with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in a private health care organization. MATERIAL A...

OBJECTIVE: To introduce a human capital approach to reduce health disparities in South Carolina by increasing the number and quality of trained minority professionals in public health practice and research. METHODS: The conceptual basis and elements of Project EXPORT in South Carolina are described. Project EXPORT is a community based participatory research (CBPR) translational project designe...

PURPOSE To examine relationships between pharmaceutical representatives and obstetrician-gynecologists and identify factors associated with self-reported reliance on representatives when making prescribing decisions. METHOD In 2006-2007, questionnaires were mailed to 515 randomly selected physicians in the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists' Collaborative Ambulatory Research ...