Lessons from the ‘real world’

Medical therapy for COPD: lessons from the real world.

Eating behavior: lessons from the real world of humans.

Food intake by normal humans has been investigated both in the laboratory and under free-living conditions in the natural environment. For measurement of real-world intake, the diet-diary technique is imperfect and tends to underestimate actual intakes but it appears to be sensitive, can detect subtle influences on eating behavior, and produces reliable and valid measures. Research studies in t...

Progress in heart failure Management? Lessons from the real world.

In recent years, we have learned a great deal about the pathophysiology of heart failure, and we have demonstrated a significant potential for improved clinical outcomes with medical treatments. However, it is important to continually gauge the impact that this incremental knowledge has had on health outcomes in the real world, within populations beyond those enrolled in clinical trials. The st...

Scheduling in the Real World: Lessons Learnt∗

Developing scheduling systems for industry, whether these are prototype systems to explore whether a certain technique can be applied in a certain new area, or production systems that will support the day-to-day running of a factory, is quite different from developing research systems aimed at the vast library of benchmark problems. In particular, we have found that real-world problems do not c...

Real world evidence: experience and lessons from China