Real-world practice

Smog, Cognition and Real-World Decision-Making

Cognitive functioning is critical as in our daily life a host of real-world complex decisions in high-stakes markets have to be made. The decision-making process can be vulnerable to environmental stressors. Summarizing the growing economic and epidemiologic evidence linking air pollution, cognition performance and real-world decision-making, we first illustrate key physiological and psychologi...

Trusted Computing: From Theory to Practice in the Real World

Trusted Computing technology is now able to provide solutions to today's enterprise IT security issues. There is a need to increase control over the corporate network. Mobility increases productivity, but with new risks, which have to be handled by technology that is able to ensure security with acceptable costs. Creating security needs well-thought-out concepts, technology, infrastructures, an...

Balancing Evaluation Theory and Practice in the Real World

In this paper, the author argues that evaluation theory and practice interact insufficiently today, even though early evaluation theorists expected them to be closely intertwined. She views this limited connection as the result of differing interests on the part of theorists and practitioners, differing frequencies of dissemination, and differing targets of opportunity, with theorists concentra...

Real-world challenges to the practice of evidence-based medicine.

Multiple myeloma: patient outcomes in real‐world practice

With increasing number of therapies available for the treatment of multiple myeloma, it is timely to examine the course of patients' journeys. We investigated patient characteristics, treatment durations and outcomes, and symptom burden across the treatment pathway in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and the UK. In total, 435 physicians retrospectively reviewed 4997 patient c...