Sarcoma management: expertise and balance

Head and Neck Tumors: Management of Primary Undifferentiated Pleomorphic Sarcoma

Introduction: Sarcomas account for 1% of all tumors originated in the head and neck regions in adults. They constitute a heterogeneous group of tumors of mesenchymal origin with multiple histological variants. The undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma (UPS) subtype is the most frequent variant with an incidence range of 2.7-38%.   Materials and Methods: This retrospective...

Expertise management systems in practice

This position paper describes a survey of expertise management systems, with the focus on competencies, and their use in four companies. Our interest lies in informing design by investigating features in the systems. Through this we hope to contribute with practical CSCW applications and concepts.

NewsMate: Expertise Management for Journalists

The paper describes the design of a system that is informed by an empirical study of radio journalists. When reporting news it is important to frame the problem and give an appropriate background so that an understandable and representative picture is provided. To frame the problem, or rather to shape how something is going to be reported, is done in continuous discussion among the journalists....

Valuing Feedyard Management Education, Experience, and Expertise

Transacting Expertise in Emergency Management and Response

In this paper we extend transactive memory systems (TMS) theory to develop an understanding of the distributed coordination of expertise in high-reliability organizations. We illustrate our conceptual developments in a study of emergency management and response in Greece. We focus on the interaction between operators/dispatchers, ambulance crew, and specialist doctors, including the information...