Do patients consider computer-adaptive measures more appropriate than static questionnaires?

Biosimilars: what do patients need to consider?

A view from the EULAR Standing Committee of People with Arthritis/Rheumatism in Europe (SCPARE) on some of the issues that patients might wish to consider about biosimilars in shared decision-making discussions with their rheumatologist. The paper also points to the need for more information on biosimilars being made available in lay language.

Why Process Quality Measures may be More Valuable than Outcome Measures in Critical Care Patients

Structure measures are typically most valuable when good quality of care is unlikely, as it will often help illustrate glaring deficiencies. Process measures attempt to assess healthcare provider’s compliance with practices that are associated with positive outcomes. Outcome quality measures assess whether healthcare goals were realized. These measures can range from mortality, cost of care and...

Do Characters Abuse More Than Words?

Although word and character n-grams have been used as features in different NLP applications, no systematic comparison or analysis has shown the power of character-based features for detecting abusive language. In this study, we investigate the effectiveness of such features for abusive language detection in user-generated online comments, and show that such methods outperform previous state-of...

What do ye more than others?

Do juveniles bully more than young offenders?

This study compares bullying behaviour among juvenile and young offenders and incorporates two different methods to measure bullying. Ninety-five male juvenile and 196 male young offenders completed two questionnaires, one that measured bullying directly and one that measured behaviours indicative of "being bullied" or of "bullying others". Juveniles perceived a higher extent of bullying than y...