1 one of the world's first scientific journals, 2 the subscription-based journal has been the traditional model for disseminating scientific and medical knowledge. 3,4 Granting access only through subscription can place significant barriers to information sharing, thus putting research, teaching and patient care at risk. While the internet age has made information universally available, medical...

Adequate blood pressure control represents an important goal for all physicians due to the complications of hypertension which reduce patients' quality of life. A new interventional strategy to reduce blood pressure has been developed for patients with resistant hypertension. Catheter-based renal denervation has demonstrated excellent results in recent investigations associated with few side ef...

In 1996, the World Health Organization declared violence a major and growing public health problem across the world. In Spain, despite the growing incidence of reports of deaths and abuse due to intimate partners violence; the emergent data on school-based violence among children and adolescents; the persisting political violence and the tragic experience of the 11-M attacks in Madrid; a clear ...

In this article, the authors explore the factors that, in their opinion, currently explain the complexity of emergency care in Spain. Since the start of the XXI century, and in spite of the fact that accident and emergency medicine in the world is undergoing considerable scientific-technical progress, accident and emergency care in Spain is immersed in a care maelstrom acting on a terrain that ...

articles online) by Novática, journal of the Spanish CEPIS society ATI (Asociación de Técnicos de Informática) at , and in Italian (online edition only, containing summary, abstracts, and some articles) by the Italian CEPIS society ALSI (Associazione nazionale Laureati in Scienze dell’informazione e Informatica) and the Italian IT portal Tecnoteca at <http://www.tec...

OBJECTIVES Although asbestos was banned in Spain in 2001, monitoring the health of previously-exposed workers is required. In 2002 the Ministry of Health and the autonomous regions of Spain planned a health surveillance program for workers exposed to asbestos (Programa de Vigilancia de la Salud de los Trabajadores Expuestos al Amianto [PIVISTEA]) with employers' organizations, trade unions and ...

In keeping with the growing movement in scientific publishing toward transparency in data and methods, we propose changes to journal authorship policies and procedures to provide insight into which author is responsible for which contributions, better assurance that the list is complete, and clearly articulated standards to justify earning authorship credit. To accomplish these goals, we recomm...

M anuscripts, like embryos and tumors, develop in stages (Table I), and dermatology authors increasingly expose this development to examination by self-archiving—that is, by posting manuscripts or published papers on personal Web sites and in public repositories (Table II) before, simultaneous with, or after publication in academic journals. When authors publish in closed-access traditional jou...

BACKGROUND There is increasing concern about the quality, reliability, and independence of practice guidelines. Because no information is available on the methodological quality of the guidelines developed by specialty societies, we undertook a survey on those published in peer-reviewed journals. METHODS Practice guidelines produced by specialty societies and published in English between Janu...