How should we test the tests?

How can we enhance the value of laboratory tests?

Today, the pressures on the healthcare systems for the controlling of the costs are extreme and all sectors try to demonstrate the value of their services by justifying the activities and expenditures so the value can be describe in terms like quality, efficiency, effectiveness, patient satisfaction, cost effectiveness .The value of the lab testing is generally directed to their costs and the c...

How long should we test? - a dynamic model

Software maintenance and testing activities consume most of software project resources. This fact motivates research in the field of planning, estimating and tracking maintenance and testing resources. An approach for modelling maintenance and testing effort has been suggested recently by Calzolari et.al. [1]. This model considers as prey the software faults which cause environmental needs and ...

How Should We Teach Simulation ?

This paper deals with the issue of how one can teach simulation in the most time-efficient way. We first distinguish between different types of student as regards their background and future needs. We next look at reasons for studying simulation at a business school. Next we compare animation oriented simulators with simulation languages. We then study a list of desirable criteria for simulatio...

How should we define health?

Machteld Huber senior researcher, J André Knottnerus president, Scientific Council for Government Policy , Lawrence Green editor in chief, Oxford Bibliographies Online—public health , Henriëtte van der Horst head , Alejandro R Jadad professor , Daan Kromhout vice president, Health Council of the Netherlands , Brian Leonard professor , Kate Lorig professor , Maria Isabel Loureiro coordinator for...

How should we set priorities?