The management of stroke in rural and regional areas is variable in both the developed and developing world. Informed by best-practice guidelines and recommendations for systems of stroke care, adaptable models of care that are appropriate for local needs should be devised for rural and regional settings. This review addresses the issue of the provision of appropriate services in rural and regi...

BACKGROUND Despite a strong movement towards active patient involvement in healthcare policy decisions, systematic and explicit consideration of evidence of this research on patient preferences seems limited. Furthermore, little is known about the opinions of several stakeholders towards consideration of research evidence on patient preferences in healthcare policy decisions. This paper describ...

Research in Parts-of-Speech (POS) tagset design for European and East Asian languages started with a mere listing of important morphosyntactic features in one language and has matured in later years towards hierarchical tagsets, decomposable tags, common framework for multiple languages (EAGLES) etc. Several tagsets have been developed in these languages along with large amount of annotated dat...

On 23 September 2002, the Belgian law on euthanasia came into force. This makes Belgium the second country in the world (after the Netherlands) to have an Act on euthanasia. Even though there is currently legal regulation of euthanasia in Belgium, very little is known about how this legal regulation could be translated into care for patients who request euthanasia.

OBJECTIVES Poor quality of reporting of confounding has been observed in observational studies prior the STrenghtening the Reporting of Observational studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) statement, a reporting guideline for observational studies. We assessed whether the reporting of confounding improved after the STROBE statement. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING We searched MEDLINE for all articles abou...

ASMBS pediatric committee best practice guidelines Marc Michalsky, M.D., F.A.C.S., F.A.A.P.*, Kirk Reichard, M.D., F.A.C.S., F.A.A.P., Thomas Inge, M.D., F.A.C.S., F.A.A.P., Janey Pratt, M.D., F.A.C.S., Carine Lenders, M.D., F.A.A.P. Chair, American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Pediatric Committee, Gainesville, Florida Co-Chair, American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surger...

Practice Guideline for the Promotion of Perioperative Normothermia Vallire D. Hooper, PhD, RN, CPAN, FAAN, Robin Chard, PhD, RN, CNOR, Theresa Clifford, MSN, RN, CPAN, Susan Fetzer, PhD, RN, Susan Fossum, BSN, RN, CPAN, Barbara Godden, MHS, RN, CPAN, CAPA, Elizabeth A. Martinez, MD, MHS, Kim A. Noble, PhD, RN, CPAN, Denise O’Brien, MSN, RN, ACNS-BC, CPAN, CAPA, FAAN, Jan Odom-Forren, PhD, RN, C...