This case study described the quality assurance practices andthe challenges faced by Higher Education Institutions inGuangxi Province, China. The was carried out withtwelve (12) focal persons from each publicUniversity in Guangxi, These have beeninvolved practice of for at least threeyears. Moreover, findings reveal that Teaching QualityMonitoring Department takes charge planning theprograms, a...

Thisarticle first reviews the history of political science teaching in Europebefore going on to consider a range of recent developments in the teaching of politicalscience, including cross-national joint programmers; technologically enhancedlearning; placement learning and problem-based learning. The last sectionconsiders a range of issues facing political science teachers, includingfinancial p...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently commissioned a comprehensive analysis of the effectiveness and appropriateness of federal clinical regulations. The analysis found that many federal regulations are technically obsolescent and many may be operationally unnecessary as a result of changing laboratory technology and changed federal reimbursement policies. Among changes reco...

• Bovine trypanosomiasis in sub-Saharan Africa is a major constraint to livestock productivity and poverty alleviation as some 40 million cattle are kept in tsetse infested areas. • Trypanocidal drugs remain the primary means of trypanosomiasis control for farmers. • Until recently, no accurate way to measure trypanocidal drug levels in animals existed to help optimise drug use. Improved drug u...

The problems in Canada with laboratory medicine were recently discussed in CMAJ. The Canadian Association of Pathologists released a 5-point action plan following its 2008 annual meeting. We fully endorse the call for mandatory external testing of proficiency for all Canadian medical laboratories and the dissemination of a quality-management checklist for diagnostic immunohistochemistry. Howeve...

surgery and uses inference rules to identify and classify abnormal events (e.g., hypertension) that may occur during critical surgical points (e.g., start of bypass). This vital information is used as the content of automatically generated briefings designed by MAGIC, a multimedia system that they are developing to brief intensive care unit clinicians on patient status after cardiac surgery. By...

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To the Editor:—During the preoperative check of an Ohmeda Modulus SE anesthesia machine (Ohmeda Inc., Madison, WI) with an Ohmeda 7900 ventilator and expiratory limb water trap, we observed approximately 1 cm (4 ml) of water in the base of the water trap. On examination, the water appeared to be very pale orange in appearance but did not have an obvious odor. Culture of this fluid grew . 10/ml ...

Quality-assurance initiatives encourage adherence to evidenced-based guidelines for the management of particular diseases and ensure that such adherence is monitored.1-3 The best of these guidelines, developed by national organizations, systematically collect the available evidence regarding a given disease and provide recommendations, including the use of multidrug regimens, for the treatment ...