Academic global surgery and COVID-19: Turning impediments into opportunities

COVID-19 and Power in Global Health

Political scientists bring important tools to the analysis of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, particularly a focus on the crucial role of power in global health politics. We delineate different kinds of power at play during the COVID-19 crisis, showing how a dearth of compulsory, institutional, and epistemic power undermined global cooperation and fuel...

Engaging academic surgery in global health: challenges and opportunities in the development of an academic track in global surgery.

SURGERY is not thought of typically as a component of public health, especially in resource-poor countries in which much of the medical attention is placed on prevention and treatment of infectious diseases. Current avenues of financial support for research and health initiatives in lowand middle-income countries often focus on health issues targeted by the United Nations Millennium Development...

Turning breakdowns into opportunities for creativity

Executable Requirements: Oppotunities and Impediments Executable Requirements: Opportunities and Impediments

In a top-down, language-based design methodology, requirements can be specified in an executable format, reducing the ambiguity typically encountered with written requirements, and serving as the starting point for the evolution of more detailed requirements and design specifications. As part of the Rapid Prototyping of Application Specific Signal Processors (RASSP) program, a VHDL executable r...

Implementing CAP guidelines: impediments and opportunities.

CONTEXT The implementation of guidelines for treatment of Community-Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) has been proposed as a quality improvement and cost-saving strategy, though the effectiveness of several recommendations has yet to be confirmed through clinical trials. We sought to analyze the development and implementation of guidelines at our hospital, and to identify particular successes and impedi...