Background The CREAM Study aimed to address the uncertainty around the effect of using antibiotics to treat clinically infected eczema on subjective eczema severity in children in primary care. Children were identified by GP practices and referred to the CREAM Study. A software package (Trial Torrent) that sits on primary care electronic medical record systems and can deliver pop-up reminders a...

This paper presents a performance visualization tool, developed to provide advanced 3-D performance visualization of distributed applications, based on the integration of the J-OCM monitoring system into the SCIRun/TAU visualization environment. Following the changes in the J-OCM monitoring system, we have done some extensions to SCIRun to support Web Services performance visualization. The pap...

this research studies the impact of e-banking service quality on customer satisfaction and commitment. the aim of study is applicable, and given the importance of topic, 384 customers of saderat bank branches in tehran province who experienced the use of bank electronic services selected by sampling and randomly. by the use of a questionnaire, the data are collected. for evaluating questionnair...

We read with interest the editorial by Peter Tanuesputro,1 which describes how Big Data analysis of linked data has the potential to support palliative care by improving identification of patient needs. The editorial described how the use of predictive algorithms (built using routinely collected data) could help to personalise care for people with palliative care needs. However, it is necessary...

When considering the development of the grid as the universal computing infrastructure, one of the important issues that has to be faced is porting legacy codes to the grid. In this paper an approach to wrapping cluster codes as grid services using the latest generation of grid middleware is analyzed. This approach was derived from several experiments of wrapping legacy codes. The application-d...

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Well-designed electronic health records (EHRs) must integrate a variety of accurate information to support efforts to improve quality of care, particularly equity-in-care initiatives. This case study provides insight into the challenges those initiatives may face in collecting accurate race, ethnicity, and language (REAL) information in the EHR. We present the experience of an academic medical ...