Alain T. Drooz, MD, Curtis A. Lewis, MD, Timothy E. Allen, MD, Steven J. Citron, MD, Patricia E. Cole, PhD, MD, Neil J. Freeman, MD, James W. Husted, MD, Patrick C. Malloy, MD, Louis G. Martin, MD, A. Van Moore, MD, Calvin D. Neithamer, MD, Anne C. Roberts, MD, David Sacks, MD, Orestes Sanchez, MD, Anthony C. Venbrux, MD, Curtis W. Bakal, MD, MPH, for the Society of Interventional Radiology Sta...

Medical guidelines can significantly improve quality of medical care and reduce costs. But how do we get sound and well-structured guidelines? This paper investigates the use of quality indicators, which are formulated by medical institutions to evaluate medical care, to evaluate the guidelines. The main research questions are (i) whether it is possible to formalise those indicators in a specif...

Background Headache is a very common complaint in children, and can have a profound impact on school performance [1], being the major cause of absence from school [2], and interfering with other daily activities [3]. The studies based on parental reports may be an unreliable source of information on the frequency of headache in young children; in fact, it has been suggested that almost 36% of t...

Clinical practice guidelines abound. The recommendations contained in these guidelines are used not only to make decisions about the care of individual patients but also as practice standards to rate physician "quality." Physicians' confidence in guidelines is based on the supposition that there is a rigorous, objective process for developing recommendations based on the best available evidence...

BACKGROUND Clinical practice guidelines bridge the gap between the evidence from literature and clinical practice, and they may provide guidance in ethical, legal and societal dilemmas. To explore the potentials for future international guideline development within the field of human reproduction and embryology, we assessed the quality of existing guidelines produced by the European Society of ...

the article analyzes literature problems using as a parameter the quaternary prevention concept, introducing guidelines to have good shared decisions that avoid overdiagnosis and overtreatment and improve the quality of life. the author proposes a four-step approach: reliable evidence, awareness about populations profile, independent research analysis, and an understandable format by ordinary p...

To judge the quality of a lighting installation is to determine how well it meets context-specific goals in the areas of architecture, economics, and individual wellbeing. The goals for individual well-being are behaviours such as task performance, mood, social behaviour, aesthetic judgements and satisfaction, that occur as a result of internal processes influenced by luminous conditions. These...

As users continue to access the Internet from a growing set of heterogeneous access devices, they demand Web services tailored to their personal preferences and usage type (business or personal, for example). Client Internet access devices range from traditional workstations and PCs to laptops, personal digital assistants, and smart phones, and connectivity can be wired or wireless and continuo...

During the 1980s, the profile of recreational water quality at Sydney’s beaches caused concern among Sydneysiders. Monitoring of recreational water quality indicated that most Sydney beaches had poor water quality, and this condition was attributed to the disposal of partiallytreated sewage at cliff-face discharges. An epidemiological study conducted in 1989–1990 attempted to determine the prev...