Marketing Research: Current State and Next Steps

The LAPPS Grid: Current State and Next Steps

The US National Science Foundation (NSF) SI2-funded LAPPS Grid project has developed an open-source platform for enabling complex analyses while hiding complexities associated with underlying infrastructure, that can be accessed through a web interface, deployed on any Unix system, or run from the cloud. It provides sophisticated tool integration and history capabilities, a workflow system for ...

Cochrane Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine: Current State of Development and Next Steps.

Community-based Participatory Research: Necessary Next Steps

Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is gaining increasing credence among public health researchers and practitioners. However, there is no standardization in assessing the quality of research methods, the effectiveness of the interventions, and the reporting requirements in the literature. The absence of standardization precludes meaningful comparisons of CBPR studies. Several authors...

Emergency Medicine Resident Rotations Abroad: Current Status and Next Steps

INTRODUCTION International rotations for residents are increasingly popular, but there is a dearth of evidence to demonstrate that these rotations are safe and that residents have appropriate training and support to conduct them. METHODS A survey was sent to all U.S. emergency medicine (EM) residencies with publicly available e-mail addresses. The survey documents and examines the training an...

Evidence-based treatment research: Advances, limitations, and next steps.

This article highlights the development of evidence-based treatments (EBTs), the accomplishment their development reflects, and the limitations of current variations as a way of providing mental health services and care. Rather than review EBTs, I use the occasion to provide an overview of my work on the development of treatments for children referred clinically for aggressive and antisocial be...