The European Commission’s new NAIRU: Does it deliver?

Classification in Psychiatry: Does it deliver in schizophrenia and depression?

BACKGROUND In the context of ongoing work to develop the next iteration of psychiatric classification systems, we briefly review the performance of current systems against their own stated objectives, for two major diagnostic groupings. DISCUSSION In the major groupings of schizophrenia and depression, experience over the last 50 years has highlighted particular inadequacies in the utility an...

Dialectical Inquiry – Does It Deliver? A User Based Research Experience

Dialectical Enquiry (DI) as a research method was used in the study of customer/student experience and its management (CEM) in not for profit as higher education. The (DI) method is applied to senders, receivers of the customer experience across six English universities to gather real world data using an imposed dialectical structure and analysis. By conducting sixty interviews from the actors ...

Translational research: what does it mean, what has it delivered and what might it deliver?

PURPOSE OF REVIEW In this article, we review recent developments in translational research in the fields of acute lung injury, acute kidney injury and sepsis with a focus on emerging biomarkers and outline future advances in the field. RECENT FINDINGS There is currently a significant and unmet need for high quality translational research in critical care. The emergence of '-omics' technologie...

Caveat Emptor: What the New IOM Report Does Not Deliver.

Experience Since MELD Implementation: How Does the New System Deliver?

Because of increasing waiting-list mortality, the MELD (Model for End-Stage Liver Disease) allocation system was implemented within most countries of the Eurotransplant area on December 16, 2006. Five years have now passed, and we review in this paper the effects of the MELD-based allocation upon the waiting list for liver transplantation, on peri-operative management and on postoperative outco...