Issues in pain measurement

Issues in Performance Measurement

issues in Utility Measurement

Descriptive theories of decision making are constrained by the need to explain the following behavioral phenomena: risk aversion, gambling, purchases of insurance, investment, the paradoxes of Allais and Ellsberg, intransitivity of preference, irregularities of choice, preference reversals, risk judgments, violations of branch independence, the difference between buying and selling prices, viol...

Disparities in pain: ethical issues.

The American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM) endorses the World Health Organization declaration that pain relief is a human right. The Academy advocates strongly for access to highquality pain care for all persons, seeking to overcome any and all inequities that exist. The AAPM embraces the American Medical Association’s statement on disparities, affirming that “disparities in medical care base...

Painful Issues in Pain Prediction.

How perception of pain emerges from neural activity is largely unknown. Identifying a neural 'pain signature' and deriving a way to predict perceived pain from brain activity would have enormous basic and clinical implications. Researchers are increasingly turning to functional brain imaging, often applying machine-learning algorithms to infer that pain perception occurred. Yet, such sophistica...

Issues in QT interval measurement

The QT interval, apart from clinical implications is crucial for safety assessment of new drugs under development. A QTc prolongation of even 10 msec in a study group is a warning signal for a new drug. There are various issues involved in the measurement of the QT interval especially regarding the ending of the T wave and different morphological pattern of T-U complex. The other issue is signi...