Appraising a Medical Care Program

Appraising UMLS Coverage for Summarizing Medical Evidence

When making clinical decisions, practitioners need to rely on the most relevant evidence available. However, accessing a vast body of medical evidence and confronting the issue of information overload, can be challenging and time consuming. This paper proposes an effective summarizer for medical evidence by utilizing both UMLS and WordNet. Given a clinical query and a set of relevant abstracts,...

Appraising the situation: a framework for understanding compassionate care

Background: Compassion in healthcare represents an ideal way of interacting with patients. It entails an active response to suffering, distress or discomfort that can be associated with people seeking health related support or treatment. However, reports from within healthcare highlight that compassionate care (CC) is not always achieved. It may be especially problematic when trying to work wit...

Identifying, appraising, and implementing medical education curricula: a guide for medical educators.

As physicians' requirements for knowledge and skills evolve, medical educators often encounter the need for new curricula. This article presents an approach to identifying, appraising, and adapt-ing an established curriculum as an alternative to developing a new one. A published managed care curriculum is reviewed as an educational case example.

Appraising qualitative research articles in medicine and medical education.

Although qualitative research is gaining recognition in medicine and in medical education, most clinical teachers do not know how to perform a critical appraisal of articles in these fields. This article describes a grid for the critical appraisal of qualitative research articles so that clinical teachers are in a better position to evaluate this type of research and to teach the critical appra...

The OJ/OC program: a non-resident MPH program in medical care administration.