Keeping current given the vast volume of medical literature published yearly poses a serious challenge for medical professionals. Thus, interest in systems that aid physicians in making clinical decisions is intensifying. A task of Clinical Decision Support (CDS) systems is retrieving highly relevant medical literature that could help healthcare professionals in formulating diagnoses or determi...

To the general reader and watcher of television programmes medical ethics may appear to be something new. This is not so, for hundreds of articles and many books have appeared over the last zo years or so to discuss and analyse the problems arising from the practice of medicine. In this study of two larger works Medical Ethics and Manipulation both by Bernard Hdring, a Roman Catholic theologian...

The difficulty of the medical diagnostic task and the advantages of the computer as an aid in this task are discussed. The general strategy and structure of any computer-aided system is presented, and the relationship of diagnostic accuracy to key variables involved in the development, test and use of a computer-aided diagnostic system is examined. These variables include: the computer algorith...

Literature review is a cascading process of searching, reading, analyzing, and summing up of the materials about a specific topic. However, searching the literature is like searching "a needle in a haystack", and hence has been called "Cinderella".(1) Therefore, skills and effective pathways of searching the literature are needed to achieve high sensitive and specific results.

There are many different definitions of evidence based medicine. One of the most is Evidence Based Medicine? Users' Guide to the Medical Literature, 3rd ed. Oxman AD, Sackett DL, Guyatt GH et al. Users' guides to the medical literature. I. How to get started. The Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group. JAMA. 1993. Download Users Guides To The Medical Literature A Manual For EvidenceBased Clinica...

Children’s vowel acquisition has long been examined on the basis of transcription-based evaluations of the accuracy rate of the vowel production in children before 5 years of age. This study examines the development of static and dynamic acoustic features in children between 3 and 7 years of age by comparing the acoustic features of children with those of adults. All acoustic analyses were base...

1 Nucleus of the Solitary Tract 2 3 James A. Corson and Robert M. Bradley 4 5 Running head: Properties of rNTS Intramedullary Projection Neurons 6 7 1. Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences 8 School of Dentistry 9 University of Michigan 10 Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1078 11 2. Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology 12 Medical School 13 University of Michigan 14 Ann Arbor, MI 48109-...