Preffi 2.0 is an evidence-based Dutch quality assessment instrument for health promotion interventions. It is mainly intended for both planning and assessing one's own projects but can also be used to assess other people's projects (external use). This article reports a study on the reliability of Preffi as an external quality assessment instrument. Preffi is used to assess quality at three lev...

BACKGROUND Geographic information systems (GIS) are increasingly recognized tools in maternal health. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the use of GIS in maternal health and to identify knowledge gaps and opportunities. SEARCH STRATEGY Keywords broadly related to maternal health and GIS were used to search for academic articles and gray literature. SELECTION CRITERIA Reviewed articles focused on mat...

OBJECTIVES High failure rates of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are well recognized but poorly understood. We report exploratory analyses from an adjunctive ziprasidone double-blind RCT in adults with bipolar I disorder (reported in part 1 of this article). Data collected by computer interviews and by site-based raters were analyzed to examine the impact of eligibility criteria on signal d...

To get a more convenience work in forest application, GIS and information system is used in forestry. GIS technology is used to build an informational management system of forest disease. For the practical requirement, the system is implemented by PDA which works outside to help completing the data collection. The major function of the system is input and output of the forest disease data and p...

The essence of this master thesis is to establish a 'marriage' between Geographical Infor-mation System (GIS) and Multi-Criteria Analysis (MCA), a family of OR/MS tools thathave experienced very successful applications in di®erent domains since the 1960s. In fact,GIS has several limitations in the domain of decision-aid. The remedy to these limitationsis to integrate GIS technol...

The final outcome of a nuclear Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) is generally inaccurate and imprecise. This is primarily because not all risk contributors are addressed in the analysis, and there are state-of-knowledge uncertainties about input parameters and how models should be constructed. In this thesis, we formulate two measures, risk significance (RS) and risk change significance (RCS)...

BACKGROUND Analyzing and visualizing health-related databases using Geographic Information Systems (GISs) becomes essential in controlling many public health problems. OBJECTIVES To explore the perception and preferences of public health professionals (PHPs) about the usability of GISs in public health field. METHODS For this scoping review, the investigators searched Medline Ovid, PubMed, ...

GIS is a tool for the production of applied geographic knowledge as well as for its wide dissemination and use. This paper examines the problems of quality control and monitoring resulting from the ease with which non-experts can now produce, using GIS, many kinds of documents thus far obtainable only from experts. Because the quality of a GIS product is largely a function of the background ass...