The conduct of a qualitative research interview is a complex social interaction that has the potential to influence, or be influenced by, both the researcher and the study participant. When a researcher is identified as a professional nurse, the identification of this role has the potential to influence the researcher-participant interaction. To understand the effect of a nurse-researcher's inv...

Academic research a prerequisite for patient safety in surgery In the past experimental and clinical research efforts in surgery have been considered the “golden key” for understanding the underlying pathomechanisms of surgical diseases, for successful development of surgical techniques, improved patients quality of life and beneficial clinical outcome. Furthermore, scientific findings and evid...

BACKGROUND Many health researchers are clinicians. Dual-role experiences are common for clinician-researchers in research involving patient-participants, even if not their own patients. To extend the existing body of literature on why dual-role is experienced, we aimed to develop a typology of common catalysts for dual-role experiences to help clinician-researchers plan and implement methodolog...

clearly assigned to one of the three main social classes by their clothing, it was both a parade of the old world order and the signal for the most radical change in history. The third estate (i.e. everybody who didn't belong to the nobility or clergy) had fought for and obtained 600 places in the assembly, but, as the privileged classes insisted on block votes by estates, equality in the head ...

In recent years, significant efforts have been made toward elucidating the potential of the human brain. Spanning fields as disparate as psychology, biomedicine, computer science, mathematics, electrical engineering, and chemistry, research venturing into the growing domains of cognitive neuroscience and brain research has become fundamentally interdisciplinary. Among the most interesting and c...

RATIONALE Biostatistics continues to play an essential role in contemporary cardiovascular investigations, but successful implementation of biostatistical methods can be complex. OBJECTIVE To present the rationale behind statistical applications and to review useful tools for cardiology research. METHODS AND RESULTS Prospective declaration of the research question, clear methodology, and st...

When a small microphone is fitted into an ear canal, one might find that the sound picked up by the microphone would consist of more than just background noise. These detectable sound emissions generated from the inner ear have been named spontaneous otoacoustic emissions or SPOAEs since their discovery by a British engineer named David Kemp in 1977. Since their discovery, otoacoustic emissions...