How much progress have we made over the last few decades?

The past decade of diagnostic radiology in Singapore: how much progress have we really made?

Interventions to increase smoking cessation at the population level: how much progress has been made in the last two decades?

This paper reviews the literature on smoking cessation interventions, with a focus on the last 20 years (1991 to 2010). These two decades witnessed major development in a wide range of cessation interventions, from pharmacotherapy to tobacco price increases. It was expected that these interventions would work conjointly to increase the cessation rate on the population level. This paper examines...

Nurses' knowledge of pain assessment and management: how much progress have we made?

Undertreatment of pain and lack of knowledge about pain management have been evident for approximately two decades. Because nurses are often the cornerstone of pain management, nurses' knowledge in this area is especially important. This paper explores indications of progress in the level of nursing knowledge about basic aspects of pain management. The literature is reviewed and findings from r...

Recruitment and retention of rural physicians: how much progress have we made?

must also be willing to evaluate critically the practices of certified nurse midwives, who might have an even lower rate of intervention in maternity care while they maintain equally high quality.IS Finally, because today's medical environment, despite its shortcomings, has a greater emphasis on cost-effective care, family physicians might have their greatest opportunity to promote the lowinter...

How much progress have we made on RST discourse parsing? A replication study of recent results on the RST-DT

This article evaluates purported progress over the past years in RST discourse parsing. Several studies report a relative error reduction of 24 to 51% on all metrics that authors attribute to the introduction of distributed representations of discourse units. We replicate the standard evaluation of 9 parsers, 5 of which use distributed representations, from 8 studies published between 2013 and ...