Automating Your Existing Clinical Instruments

Adding Instruments and Workflow Support to Existing Grid Architectures

Many Grid architectures have been developed in recent years. These range from the large community Grids such as LHG and EGEE to single site deployments such as Condor. However, these Grid architectures have tended to focus on the execution of executables. Application scientists are now seeking to deploy their entire workflows onto these Grids, which will require the addition of instruments onto...

Making Work Pay: Policy Choices and Interactions with Existing Instruments

Policy interventions generally have both desirable and undesirable effects on the efficiency and/or equity of market allocations. The balance between the former and the latter depends importantly, for each instrument, on the scope and elasticity of market reactions to its introduction, which in turn depend on the pervasiveness and character of policy intervention along the margins where such re...

Clinical trials--discussing your findings.

Discussing findings of a clinical trial gives an opportunity to the investigator to elaborate the meaning of the findings of the trial. It should consist of the major findings, interpretation of the results in light of the available literature, theory and practice, limitations, generalizability of the findings and its implication, and way forwards for future research. One should avoid repetitio...

Defining Dimensions of Patient Satisfaction with Telemedicine: An Analysis of Existing Measurement Instruments

As telemedicine usage continues to grow there is a need to ensure the means are available to evaluate their success. Patient satisfaction can play a key role in determining the success of telemedicine projects. However, satisfaction remains loosely defined and there are no commonly accepted views on what it consists of. A lack of well-defined dimensions for measuring telemedicine satisfaction c...

How to Assess Global Management Competencies: An Investigation of Existing Instruments