Clinical pharmacologists are well placed to address the growing challenges of multimorbidity and polypharmacy through their expertise in medicines optimisation experience working at interface between primary secondary care. However, speciality needs improve its visibility order highlight clinical economical value it can bring NHS.

Making accurate predictions about what may happen in the environment requires analogies between perceptual input and associations in memory. These elements of predictions are based on cortical representations, but little is known about how these processes can be enhanced by experience and training. On the other hand, studies on perceptual expertise have revealed that the acquisition of expertis...

The development of Information Systems (IS) and software applications increasingly needs to deliver culturally rich and affective experiences for user groups. In this paper, we explore how the collaborative practices across different expert groups can enable this experiential dimension of use to be integrated into the development of a software product. In an empirical study of computer games de...

We describe a framework, SMUSA, for developing scenarios in a networked business environment using agent based modelling. The framework is usable by anybody with domain expertise, but requiring no programming knowledge. By developing the specification details in XML, the framework integrates smoothly with data mining tools for parameterising customer preferences and identifying opportunities an...

The author, along the many years of her experience about psychiatric clinical cases on the community work, has acquired expertise in the field psychiatric rehabilitation and prevention of psychological discomfort or psychiatric disorder. Particular attention she and har team have always put the issue ok killing of the stigma and prejudice about mental illness, also through an invilment of the g...

OBJECTIVE The objective was to provide a synthesis of the results of the research and discourse lines on main dimensions of patient-centered care in the context of chronic disease management in family medicine, building on Stewart et al.'s model. METHODS We developed search strategies for the Medline, Embase, and Cochrane databases, from 1980 to April 2009. All articles addressing patient-cen...

All of the countries within Africa experience a serious shortage of medical professionals, particularly specialists, a problem that is only exacerbated by high emigration of doctors with better prospects overseas. As a result, those that remain in Africa, particularly those practicing in rural regions, experience a shortage of specialists and other colleagues with whom to exchange ideas. Teleme...

Solid organ and cell transplantation, including pancreatic islets constitute the treatment of choice for chronic terminal diseases. However, the clinical use of allogeneic transplantation is limited by the growing shortage of human organs. This has prompted us to initiate a unique multi-center and multi-team effort to promote translational research in xenotransplantation to bring xenotransplant...