lack of scientific and confirmed researches and expert knowledge about evaluation systems for clinical governance development in iran have made studies on different evaluation systems for clinical governance development a necessity. these studies must provide applied strategies to design criteria of implementing clinical governance for hospital's accreditation. this is a descriptive and compara...

OBJECTIVE Effective data sharing is critical for comparative effectiveness research (CER), but there are significant concerns about inappropriate disclosure of patient data. These concerns have spurred the development of new technologies for privacy-preserving data sharing and data mining. Our goal is to review existing and emerging techniques that may be appropriate for data sharing related to...

abstract background: in this study our purpose was to determine whether 8 and/or 12 hour urine total protein values correlate with the 24 hour value to confirm the diagnosis of pre-eclampsia. methods: the study population included 70 inpatients with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. patient's urine was collected over 24 hours with the first 8 hours, next 4 hours, and remaining 12 hours in se...

BACKGROUND The $1.1 billion investment in comparative effectiveness research will reshape the evidence-base supporting decisions about treatment effectiveness, safety, and cost. Defining the current prevalence and characteristics of comparative effectiveness (CE) research will enable future assessments of the impact of this program. METHODS We conducted an observational study of clinical tria...

The aim of this presentation is to discuss evaluation as a tool of a comparative research process. My starting point is that evaluation research is not purely comparative in nature but yet often contains elements which will forward the comparative analysis. In my presentation the analysis will focus on the following question: What kind of roles do evaluation methods have in the field of compara...

The purpose of this paper is to present the main characteristics of ActivityLens (AL), an environment that facilitates comparative usability evaluation of web sites. AL supports the usability evaluation process with innovative tools designed for this purpose. The comparative usability evaluation is based on a usability assessment model that is also described briefly. Finally, a comparative usab...

Interactive systems have become an increasingly important type of application for deployment of NLG technology over recent years. At present, we do not yet have commonly agreed terminology or methodology for evaluating NLG within interactive systems. In this paper, we take steps towards addressing this gap by presenting a set of principles for designing new evaluations in our comparative evalua...

In the RoboCupRescue environment, one of the biggest problems in choosing the best team strategy is the inability to properly compare the advantages and limitations each strategy provides. This paper presents a new tool for the performance evaluation of Rescue Simulation agents, overcoming the limitations imposed by using solely the overall score. By extracting and processing a wide set of para...