The increase in patient acuity in primary and secondary settings is continuing, with a corresponding increase in the need for technological competence in these areas. Evidence, however, both nationally and internationally, suggests that these expectations are not being met. This paper offers a review of the literature on acute care, with a specific focus on pre-registration nursing students and...

G. K. Rohde, S. Pajevic, C. Pierpaoli, P. J. Basser National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States SYNOPSIS: With the advent of new MR imaging modalities such as DT-MRI, MRA, and CSI, demand for image registration procedures capable of dealing with multi-channel image data has increased. A novel method based on multivariate linear correlation is proposed to align two multi-cha...