WHICH HEMODYNAMIC MEASUREMENT SHOULD BE USED TO IDENTIFY HEALTHY AND EARLY VASCULAR AGEING?

Which resources should be used to identify RCT/CCTs for systematic reviews: a systematic review

BACKGROUND Systematic reviewers seek to comprehensively search for relevant studies and summarize these to present the most valid estimate of intervention effectiveness. The more resources searched, the higher the yield, and thus time and costs required to conduct a systematic review. While there is an abundance of evidence to suggest how extensive a search for randomized controlled trials (RCT...

Which treatment option should be used?

Should FCE be used to identify validity of effort?

Schapmire and colleagues have recently reported a study on ‘consistency of effort’ in this journal [9]. They conclude that pain does not reasonably explain the failure of a statistically based validity criteria for detecting sincerity of effort and that their protocol is appropriate for use in a client population. There are, however, some serious concerns surrounding this paper that we wish to ...

Which Graphical Approaches should be Used to Represent Medical Knowledge?

Medical knowledge is growing both in quantity and complexity. Although sources of medical knowledge have been digitalized, the way the knowledge they contain is presented to users has not changed and is still highly text-based. However, it has been shown that this information could be presented more efficiently using graphical approaches, such as graphical languages and information visualizatio...

Which model of successful ageing should be used? Baseline findings from a British longitudinal survey of ageing.

BACKGROUND there is increasing interest in how to age 'successfully' and in reaching consensus over its definition. OBJECTIVE to assess different models of successful ageing, using a British longitudinal survey of ageing in 2000-1. SETTING community settings in Britain. METHODS five models of successful ageing were tested on a British cross-sectional population survey of 999 people aged 6...