With new calls for editors to police author misconduct and declare editorial conflicts, the JCI outlines its current policies and reflects on a few particularly salient examples of bad behavior.

BACKGROUND Medication errors may occur during prescribing, transcribing, prescription auditing, preparing, dispensing, administration, and monitoring. Medication administration errors (MAEs) are those that actually reach patients and remain a threat to patient safety. The Joint Commission International (JCI) advocates medication error prevention, but experience in reducing MAEs during the perio...

In September 2006, Luciano Rossetti started work as senior vice president and franchise head of Diabetes and Obesity as well as Cardiovascular at Merck Research Laboratories. This came after a long and successful academic career, much of it spent at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. After a year in his new position, the JCI spoke with Rossetti about his transition from academia to indust...

The Ministry of Health and Medical Education in Iran designed a comprehensive system as health care excellence model with participation of National Institute of Productivity & Organizational Excellence since January 2011 and introduced it in June 2012. The purpose of this paper is adapting of Joint Commission International Accreditation System in hospital by organizational excellence model in h...

In this article, we present empirical models for estimating daily mean air temperature (Ta) in the Hurd Peninsula of Livingston Island (Antarctica) using Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Land Surface Temperature (LST) data and spatiotemporal variables. The were obtained validated Ta from three Spanish situ meteorological stations (AEMET stations), Juan Carlos I (JCI), Johns...

Airway irritants cause a variety of lung pathologies. Two separate studies, the first recently reported in the JCI by Bessac et al. and the second reported by Andrè et al. in the current issue of the JCI (see the related article beginning on page 2574), have identified irritants that activate transient receptor potential cation channel, subfamily A, member 1 (TRPA1) receptors in airway sensory ...

Congratulations to the ASCI and its membership on the first 100 years. From their first organizational meeting on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City in June 1907, our predecessors recognized the need for an organization for the clinician who had a strong interest in true experimental medicine. These nine Young Turks formed the Society, had their first meeting at the Willard Hotel in Washington, DC,...

Fearing that the fall flu season in combination with the return of children to school could trigger a spike in swine flu cases, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has begun clinical trials of candidate vaccines against the pandemic influenza (H1N1) virus. The JCI spoke with Mark Mulligan (Figure 1), professor of medicine at Emory University School of Medicine and principa...