Book Review: Choosing Effective Laboratory Tests

Book Review: Designing Effective Instruction

Effective instructional design is a major prerequisite for desired learning outcomes. Even though the field of instructional design (ID) is relatively young, its multidisciplinary and rapidly evolving nature requires meticulous work to implement the most current evidence-based heuristics in instructional settings. The sixth edition of Designing Effective Instruction by G. R. Morrison, S. M. Ros...

Book Review: Convivial Urban Spaces: Creating Effective Public Places

Interference in laboratory tests

Interference in clinical laboratory testing can create discrepancies in test results which can lead to patient harm.  In clinical chemistry, interference is defined as a cause of medically significant difference in the measurand test result due to another component or property of the sample. Interference by endogenous and exogenous substances with assays for clinical analytes is a common prob...

Book Review Choosing Life, Choosing Death: the Tyranny of Autonomy in Medical Ethics and Law

As the title suggests, this book is concerned with challenging the hegemony of autonomy. This is not the first such attack, nor is it likely to be the last. As a challenge to what may fairly be described as the dominant view in Anglo-American bioethics and law, it is a predictable, but necessary part of the cycle of debate, creation and criticism of the way in which society approaches the relat...

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