BACKGROUND The number of states proposing school-entry requirements for human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination has increased over the last decade. However, data are currently limited regarding parents' support of such laws. We sought to obtain the first national estimates of parents' support of HPV vaccination school-entry requirements. METHODS A national sample of 1,501 parents of 11- to 17-...

DEFINITION On-line Analytical Processing (OLAP) describes an approach to decision support, which aims to extract knowledge from a data warehouse (see Data Warehouse definitional entry), or more specifically, from data marts (see Data Mart definitional entry). Its main idea is providing navigation through data to non-expert users, so that they are able to interactively generate ad-hoc queries wi...

m c p adiology has benefited from the rogress in information technolgy perhaps more than any other edical specialty. Stunning rogress has been made in the way hat images are created, stored, nd retrieved. These advances ave brought imaging ever closer o the core of medical practice nd decision making. However, systems to manage orkflow, ensure patient safety, ptimize device and modality utiizat...

Whether or not to incorporate data entry checking into your Data Management Plan and how this should be implemented is still often debated. There have been numerous publications on this topic in the past but this still remains a hot discussion point amongst Data Managers. This presentation will review the aims of data checking, the pros and cons of doing it; when and how it should be done (i.e....

Dear Editor, Re-Orientation of Medical Education(ROME), a one month posting ofundergraduate students in department ofCommunity Medicine, is used not only to buildup the knowledge, attitude, communication andclinical skills, but also to make the physician incontact with the community efficiently. In 1977,the ROME scheme aimed at developing medicaldoctors for the rural community in the visionof m...

The work of the British Aerospace Dependable Computing Systems Centre includes the development of formal techniques for use in defining and tracing requirements for software systems at the system architecture level. A basic repertoire of techniques proposed so far includes the graphical representation of timing requirements allied to model-oriented specifications of functionality. This paper gi...