Nursing informatics competencies are constantly changing in response to advances in the health information technology (HIT) industry and research emerging from the fields of nursing and health informatics. In this paper we build off the work of Staggers and colleagues in defining nursing informatics competencies at five levels: the beginning nurse, the experienced nurse, the nursing informatics...

A Caseworker Like Me: Does the Similarity between Unemployed and Caseworker Increase Job Placements? This paper examines whether the chances of job placements improve if unemployed persons are counselled by caseworkers who belong to the same social group, defined by gender, age, education, and nationality. Based on an unusually informative dataset, which links Swiss unemployed to their casework...

The facilities and services of the GEOmetry LABoratory (GEOLAB) at the NASA Langley Research Center are described. Included in this description are the laboratory functions, the surface modeling and grid generation technologies used in the laboratory, and examples of the tasks performed in the laboratory.

Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS) have the potential to help physicians overcome their own limitations in terms of information processing and decision making to create an outcome that is most beneficial to patients. While the impacts of CDSS have been shown to increase efficiency in a number of clinical trials, the results of these trials is varied and the manner in which CDSS affects ou...

This symposium provided a useful forum for the discussion of issues relating to the design and conduct of clinical trials. There is a need for greater awareness of the complexity of modern day trials, in which a host of statistical, logistical, regulatory and ethical issues are involved. Issues discussed ranged from the effect of sample size on the outcome, and subgroup analysis, to defining an...

Background: Sharing masked interim results by the Data Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) with non-DSMB members is an important issue that can affect trial integrity. Our survey's objective is to collect evidence to understand how seemingly masked interim results or result extrapolations are interpreted and discuss whether these results should be shared at interim. Methods: Conducted a 6 scenario-q...

Data and Safety Monitoring Boards (DSMBs) are commonly appointed to monitor emerging data from major clinical trials. This paper describes their organization and remit, and their relationship with other trial committees and structures. The operation of formal stopping rules for safety and efficacy by a DSMB is discussed. The duties of a DSMB, from pre-trial planning through to stopping a study ...

Concepts are often used in Medical Information Retrieval. Previous studies showed that exact concept matching (using either the exact concept expression or concept IDs) is not effective, while using concept expressions for proximity matching is more effective. In our participation in Clinical Decision Support Track 2015 task 1a, we investigated the utilization of proximity matching based on con...

introduction: performing correct research in different aspects of community as well as medical sciences can be a way to resolve many problems. in order to create a systematic knowledge of research method in academic members of arak university of medical sciences and enabling them in providing proposals and performing researches, a clinical research center was developed. this study is done to in...

background: effective clinical training is a fundamental ad important sector in medical education. studying the opinions of students in this era as a training core can be an effective step in devising clinical training as well as effective and efficient assessment. present study is conducted to determine the insights of medical trainees and interns on effective clinical training. methods: in th...