Real-life prescribing

Prescribing statins: the real issues.

Management of COPD in the UK primary-care setting: an analysis of real-life prescribing patterns

BACKGROUND Despite the availability of national and international guidelines, evidence suggests that chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) treatment is not always prescribed according to recommendations. This study evaluated the current management of patients with COPD using a large UK primary-care database. METHODS This analysis used electronic patient records and patient-completed qu...

Real life real hope

Often it is mentioned by participants that having peers speak out about their personal journey has instilled a sense of hope and been an inspiring experience. From this evolved the Mentor program. The Body Image and Eating Disorders Treatment and Recovery Service (BETRS) Mentor Program has been developed to complement the professional expertise within the team. Our Mentors share their lived exp...

News Recommenders: Real-Time, Real-Life Experiences

In this paper we share our experiences of working with a realtime news recommendation framework with real-world user and data.

Real-life examination timetabling

An examination timetabling problem at a large American university is presented. Though there are some important differences, the solution approach is based on the ITC 2007 winning solver which is integrated in the open source university timetabling system UniTime. In this work, nine real world benchmark data sets are made publicly available and the results on four of them are presented in this ...