Developing high quality clinical databases

How to conduct clinical research studies using high quality-clinical databases in the critical care.

The sources of intensive care-related information and the means of communication increase rapidly. We presented here an overview of what should be done to collect high quality database. In a second part, the principle of the choice of the research question, the outcome, the explanatory variables and the statistical methods to address the question are overviewed, emphasizing major and frequent p...

Developing high-quality educational software.

The development of effective educational software requires a systematic process executed by a skilled development team. This article describes the core skills required of the development team members for the six phases of successful educational software development. During analysis, the foundation of product development is laid including defining the audience and program goals, determining hard...

Developing Effective Quality Systems in Clinical Trials:

Challenges in developing a high - quality

One of the main drivers for this project is the requirement to complement other high-quality surface data-sets with surface wind data for use in climate change detection and attribution studies. The high-quality data may also be used to analyse trends in storminess. Investigations highlighted the following three issues: Over the last two decades Automatic Weather Stations (AWS) have been instal...

DEvElOPING HIGH-QUAlItY FIElD PROGRAM SOUNDING DAtASEtS

F or nearly half a century, field experiments have been conducted from the tropics to the polar regions involving intensive observations of atmosphere, ocean, and land processes over selected locations of interest. In a recent article, Johnson et al. (2012) identified more than 50 past field experiments with upper-air sonde datasets (see their Fig. 2, which shows a map depicting the shape, size...