The performance of the neonatal screening programme was audited against clinical standards in the Bath clinical area from 1 April 1994 to 31 March 1996. The standards and policy were agreed by local service provider representatives of the screening and were audited, using laboratory and child health computer systems and medical records. Two annual reports were produced with recommendations for ...

INTRODUCTION The increasing spread of software components in the healthcare context renders explanatory guides relevant and mandatory to interpret laws and standards, and to support safe management of software products in healthcare. METHODOLOGY In 2012 a working group has been settled for the above purposes at Italian Electrotechnical Committee (CEI), made of experts from Italian National In...

A COMMITTEE formed in October, 1921, at the ***instance of the College of Preceptors, to consider the effects of physical education on girls, has drawn up its report. Representatives were appointed by the Royal College of Physicians, the Royal College of Surgeons, the British Medical Association, the Medical Women's Federation, the British Association for Physical Training, the Ling Association...

The Vision First Check Program was developed in consultation with ophthalmology and optometry representatives on the provincial Vision Advisory Committee and piloted by participating optometrists in four communities in BC between January and June 1998. This preschool vision screening program provides for one vision screening for children aged two and three at no cost to the family or the Medica...

The distinguished representatives of the Samara (Kuibyshev) medical intelligentsia made a great contribution to development Russian medicine. analysis social and cultural aspects formation leaders major scientific pedagogical school functioning at Kuibyshev Medical Institute named after D.I. Ulyanov makes it possible identify value priorities, views, professional motivation, attitudes colleague...

As of August 1, 2013, the Sunshine Act mandates that any transaction between a physician (or teaching hospital) and the pharmaceutical or device industries more than $10 in value must be publicly disclosed. Physician and industry leaders have sounded alarms about the impact of this extreme level of transparency; physicians are nervous, for they fear information published online will tarnish the...

Similarity search in database systems is becoming an increasingly important task in modern application domains such as multimedia, molecular biology, medical imaging, computer aided engineering, marketing and purchasing assistance as well as many others. In this paper, we show how visualizing the hierarchical clustering structure of a database of objects can aid the user in his time consuming t...