OBJECTIVE To evaluate understanding of biostatistics among postgraduate medical trainees before and after biostatistics workshop. STUDY DESIGN Quasi experimental study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Regional Centre, Islamabad, College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan, from March to September 2017. METHODOLOGY Two hundred and seventy postgraduate trainees were enrolled after taking inform...

Shu and Perkins [1] deals with the problem of minimising the expected sum of quadratic buffer costs when a single, failure-prone machine produces multiple part-types. They restrict the set of control policies to the class of prioritised hedging point (PHP) policies and determine simple, analytical expressions for the optimal hedging points, provided that the priority ordering of the part-types ...

Over the past twenty-five years, numerous articles in Hypatia have clarified, revised, and defended increasingly more nuanced views of both feminist empiricism and standpoint feminism. Feminist empiricists have argued that scientific knowledge is contextual and socially situated (Longino 1990; Nelson 1990; Anderson 1995), and standpoint feminists have begun to endorse virtues of theory choice t...

Value sets for the EQ-5D-5L are required to facilitate its use in estimating quality-adjusted life years. An international protocol has been developed to guide the collection of stated preference data for this purpose and has been used to generate EQ-5D-5L valuation data for England. The aim of this paper is report the innovative methods used for modelling those data to obtain a value set. Nine...

BACKGROUND The EQ-5D is one of the most used generic health-related quality-of-life (HRQOL) instruments worldwide. To make the EQ-5D suitable for use in economic evaluations, a societal-based value set is needed. Indonesia does not have such a value set. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to derive an EQ-5D-5L value set from the Indonesian general population. METHODS A representative sampl...

Spectra of several R Coronae Borealis (RCB) stars at maximum light were examined for the [C i] 9850Å and 8727Å absorption lines. The 9850Å line is variously blended with a Fe ii and CN lines but positive identifications of the [C i] line are made for RCrB and SUTau. The 8727Å line is detected in the spectrum of the five stars observed in this wavelength region. Carbon abundances are derived fro...

Hospital is a complex organization rich in intellectual capitals. Effective management of these assets in line with innovating value to reach strategic goals and objectives can lead to increasing organizational IQ. In hospital with high organizational IQ, Increasing syntropy in intellectual capitals can convert it to an agile, learner, innovative, and smart organization.

Objective: To estimate an interim five-level EuroQol five-dimensional (EQ-5D-5L) value set for Poland on the basis of the crosswalk methodology developed by the EuroQol Group. Methods: On the basis of data from 3691 respondents from six European countries, the EuroQol Group has developed a method of obtaining interim value sets for the EQ-5D-5L by means of mapping to the available three-level E...