This vignette describes the construction of the SummarizedExperiment parathyroidGenesSE in the parathyroidSE package.

Despite their great diversity, most anthropologists would agree that they recognise a vignette when see one. What, then, is vignette? By untreading etymological and historical origins of the in anthropology, we discuss its development since it first entered ethnographic texts. We argue vignettes were long treated as tokens effeminate textual embellishment, therefore missing systematic methodolo...

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This vignette describes the construction of the SummarizedExperiment parathyroidGenesSE and parathyroidExonsSE in the parathyroidSE package.

BACKGROUND Video vignettes are used to test the effects of physicians' communication on patient outcomes. Methodological choices in video-vignette development may have far-stretching consequences for participants' engagement with the video, and thus the ecological validity of this design. To supplement the scant evidence in this field, this study tested how variations in video-vignette introduc...

CLINICAL VIGNETTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm344 Onli...

This article examines the methodology behind an empirical study investigating the ‘real life’ role of criminal defence lawyers and their approach to ethical conflict resolution. Using a normative conceptual framework entitled the ‘zealous advocate’ model, the study involved interviews with defence practitioners. A central feature of the interviews was a method known as the ‘vignette technique’,...

AIMS AND METHOD The aim of the study was to investigate whether psychiatrists consider that patients with schizophrenia present a greater risk of violence than patients with other forms of mental illness. Two pairs of clinical vignettes were devised. In each pair, one contained a history of violence and one did not. One vignette was mailed to each of 2000 consultant psychiatrists in the UK. Res...