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BACKGROUND Rapid reviews expedite the knowledge synthesis process with the goal of providing timely information to healthcare decision-makers who want to use evidence-informed policy and practice approaches. A range of opinions and viewpoints on rapid reviews is thought to exist; however, no research to date has formally captured these views. This paper aims to explore evidence producer and kno...

Long-term outcome studies are frequently hindered by a decreasing frequency of patient follow-up with the treating surgeon over time. Whether this attrition represents a "loss of faith" in their index surgeon or the realities of a geographically mobile society has never been assessed in a population of patients undergoing spinal surgery. The purpose of this article is to determine the frequency...

opinion mining deals with an analysis of user reviews for extracting their opinions, sentiments and demands in a specific area, which can play an important role in making major decisions in such area. in general, opinion mining extracts user reviews at three levels of document, sentence and feature. opinion mining at the feature level is taken into consideration more than the other two levels d...

D r Ackerman proposes that dermatologists should send all their slides to a dermatopathologist. In my opinion, this is really a scope of practice argument where one subspecialty is arguing that only they should get all the referrals. Dr Ackerman has suggested that his opinion is an ethical point. I would disagree. His point of view that dermatologists are greedy because they do not send all the...

BACKGROUND The provision of veterinary clinical services is known to elicit a range of challenges which require an ethical appraisal. In a recent Policy Delphi study, referrals/second opinions and 24 h emergency care were identified as matters of key concern by veterinary professionals in Ireland. In this case study (the first in a series of three resulting from a research workshop exploring ch...