European Renal Best Practice (ERBP) is the official guidance-providing body of the European Renal Association-European Dialysis and Transplant Association. This paper introduces the mission statement of ERBP, and provides insight on what this implies for guideline production. We will discuss that improving patient outcome does not only require attention to high-quality evidence, but also unders...

Computer programs are used in almost every area of our daily life. Especially in fields like medical computing and the whole sector of security systems they became almost vital or at least mission critical. One of the main problems of software engineering is to develop programs that are reliable enough to meet the needs of a mission critical appliance. Several approaches are taken to prove that...

To weather the chaos and turbulence in health care and maintain high quality patient services, hospital organizations must have a strong mission and value infrastructure and practice a teamwork philosophy. St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center has translated their vision into action. This article describes the foundation and structure that supported creative change in the roles of health car...

^ • 1 here is no job tougher—or more T l important—than that of a parent. But I no child ever arrived with an instruct s tion manual. It family or friends are not available, where does one turn for advice and support? In South Orange County, CA, one option is the 3,000-square-foot Family Resource Center in the Mission Viejo Mall. Opened in October 1996, the center is a partnership of Mission Ho...

Background: Physicians from wealthy countries often provide direct medical services in lowand middle-income countries either on a short-term or long-term basis, herein differentiated by the physician’s source of income, rather than by time or mission specifics. Research data has accumulated in recent years on physician profiles and motivations for shortand long-term dimensions of physician comm...

In the early 1960s, LTC Richard L. Coppedge, Medical Corps, expanded the functions of the Office of the Surgeon for the Special Warfare Center at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. He drew upon the then recent Special Forces experience in Laos and the beginnings of Special Forces experience in Vietnam to reorient the Special Forces medical mission from guerilla warfare to counterinsurgency. With impro...

OBJECTIVE Mental disorders are common in military organizations, and these frequently lead to functional impairments that can interfere with duties and lead to costly attrition. In Canada, the military mental health system has received heavy investment to improve occupational outcomes. We investigated military occupational outcomes of diagnosed mental disorders in a cohort of 30,513 personnel w...

The dissection course is an essential component of the medical curriculum. Nonetheless, the time expenditure and intensity of supervising the students in this course has been diminishing since the 1970s. That endangers not only the transmission of fundamental knowledge of anatomy. It also concerns key concepts such as establishing values, the concept of humans, and physician competencies, becau...

Rogers • Editorial T mission statement published in the very first issue of JAOA—The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association was simple: “to serve as a medium for the dissemination of information concerning the work of the Association, and of communication between its widely separated members.”1 To say the least, THE JOURNAL and its mission have evolved considerably since 1901. In recen...