Stroke among adults of working age is increasing. We aimed to explore the experience of stroke among young women in Ireland. In total, 12 women (aged between 18 and 50 years) participated in semi-structured interviews. Data were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Four super-ordinate themes were identified: stroke as an illness of later life ('obviously it's for older peopl...

"In assessing the performance of information extraction systems, we are interested in knowing the classes of errors made and the circumstances in which they are made."[!] However, to date the Tipster scoring categories (correct, partial, incorrect, spurious, missing, and noncommitta[) have not been applied to classes of data based on structural distinctions in the language, or on semantic subcl...

The role of laboratories, and especially the role of clinical chemists, in the detection of disease based on the action of toxins (intoxication) is not well defined. Clinical staff usually share the opinion that laboratory analytics are performed only to confirm their judgment and to fill the patient’s administrative documentation, but have no influence on the course of treatment. An additional...

BACKGROUND An antibiogram (ABG) gives the results of in vitro susceptibility tests performed on a pathogen isolated from a culture of a sample taken from blood or other tissues. The institutional cross-ABG consists of the conditional probability of susceptibility for pairs of antimicrobials. This paper explores how interpretative reading of the isolate ABG can be used to replace and improve the...

PURPOSE Computerised decision support systems are designed to support clinicians in making decisions and thereby enhance the quality and safety of care. We aimed to undertake an interpretative review of the empirical evidence on computerised decision support systems, their contexts of use, and summarise evidence on the effectiveness of these tools and insights into how these can be successfully...