Clinical governance: fine words or action?

Clinical governance--watchword or buzzword?

In the latest reform of the National Health Service great emphasis has been placed on the achievement and maintenance of quality. Mechanisms for ensuring this are being set up under the general title of "clinical governance". What is the meaning of this term? The metaphor behind the phrase is of navigation through stormy seas, but who guides the helmsman? Clinical ethics committees could have a...

Turning fine words into action: suggestions for high-level advocacy.

Advocacy is a crucial activity for achieving the goals of VISION 2020: The Right to Sight. Progress towards the elimination of avoidable blindness depends on political will and on making available more human and financial resources. In order for this to happen, advocacy is necessary: it can influence the policies and practices of key decision makers, particularly governments, the Word Health Or...

Words or Characters? Fine-grained Gating for Reading Comprehension

Previous work combines word-level and character-level representations using concatenation or scalar weighting, which is suboptimal for high-level tasks like reading comprehension. We present a fine-grained gating mechanism to dynamically combine word-level and character-level representations based on properties of the words. We also extend the idea of fine-grained gating to modeling the interac...

Action Words

Action Words

When employers read resumes they look for words that precisely describe the writers' accomplishments, because accomplishments predict potential. Avoid generalizations or overview statements. For example, "Assisted faculty with a wide variety of duties" is vague. "Researched labor law reports; graded papers for 50 junior level finance students; developed Visual Basic Software programs for classr...