the first issue of the archives of anesthesiology and critical care (aacc) appears on the website and reaches your hands after hard endeavors and labor of all concerned. it is a matter of immense pleasure that we could launch the first aacc after a long spell of almost eighty years ever since the first university of medicine came into being in the country. it took us some time to select a title...

In a new 340B controversy, OPA rebuffs a court ruling.

INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................. 1171 I. MICROSOFT ....................................................................................... 1179 II. ENRON/ANDERSEN ............................................................................ 1192 III. MASTERCARD/VISA ............................................................

A growing body of research in evidence-based design (EBD) demonstrates that elements of the physical environment correlate with health-related outcomes. This has prompted hospitals across the country to recommend that the architects and designers they hire have demonstrated experience in EBD; that they know both how to apply existing EBD studies and conduct and publish their own research. As a ...

and responses from Lomas (Lomas 2005a) and Lavis (Lavis 2005) under the umbrella title Perspectives on Evidence, Synthesis and Decision-Making. Together with Lomas' s essay in our inaugural issue (Lomas 2005b), they provide sometimes complementary , sometimes competing, but invariably thoughtful perspectives on how (and to what extent) research and other evidence can be synthesized, presented a...

There is a potential for improving the scientific research environment in Libya. One reason to be optimistic about the prospects of the future of science in Libya is the number of postgraduate students in all disciplines who are training in European and North American Universities. According to statistics of the Higher Education Authorities in Libya, there are approximately 3000 Libyan students...

Introduction The scientific community has developed many institutionalized forms of evaluation where peer review has an important role, but recently, bibliometric methods have been gaining some acceptability to assess the scientific performance. The two techniques have been related to one another in different ways: 1) bibliometric methods have been used to analyze the peer review processes (Moe...

Objective This paper explores the body of knowledge around Indigenous health research and aims to outline what roles are appropriate for non-Indigenous researchers within Indigenous health research in Australia. Methods A literature review was conducted using CINAHL, PubMed and Scopus in May 2015. The search terms were 'non-Indigenous researchers' AND 'Indigenous health research' and other comb...

BACKGROUND Evidence-based public health interventions, which research has demonstrated offer the most promise for improving the population's health, are not always utilized in practice settings. The extent to which dissemination from researchers to public health practice settings occurs is not widely understood. This study examines the extent to which public health researchers in the United Sta...