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Cardiovascular Risk of NSAIDs: Time to Translate Knowledge into Practice

Clinical use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) carries cardiovascular risk, which acquires implications for public health against the backdrop of rising chronic disease rates in lowand middleincome countries (LMICs). New evidence from an international study conducted by Patricia McGettigan and David Henry and published this week in PLOS Medicine [1] sheds light on how emerging e...

Nutritional knowledge and eating habits of professional rugby league players: does knowledge translate into practice?

BACKGROUND Adequate nutrient intake is important to support training and to optimise performance of elite athletes. Nutritional knowledge has been shown to play an important role in adopting optimal nutrition practices. The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between the level of nutritional knowledge and dietary habits in elite English rugby league players using the ea...

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Building Systemic Practice Into Evaluation Of Knowledge Management Tools

In the absence of any truly systemic approach to IS evaluation, an approach to evaluation of knowledge management tools is described. This uses co-operative inquiry as a participatory action research framework. Evaluation of knowledge management tools is seen as problematic due to the close coupling between the technology and the social system that is attempting to manage its knowledge. The pap...

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