This paper reviews and critiques the different approaches to the use of narrative in quality improvement research. The defining characteristics of narrative are chronology (unfolding over time); emplotment (the literary juxtaposing of actions and events in an implicitly causal sequence); trouble (that is, harm or the risk of harm); and embeddedness (the personal story nests within a particular ...

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BACKGROUND The advent of telemedicine has allowed physicians to deliver medical treatment to patients from a distance. Mobile apps such as WhatsApp Messenger, an instant messaging service, came as a novel concept in all fields of social life, including medicine. The use of instant messaging services has been shown to improve communication within medical teams by providing means for quick teleco...

BACKGROUND A systematic review identified a range of methods, which can influence response rates. However, analysis specific to a healthcare setting, and in particular, involving people expected to be poor responders, was missing, We examined the effect of pre-warning letters on response rates to a postal survey of sedentary patients whom we expected a low rate of response. METHODS Participan...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The methodological quality of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) is commonly evaluated in order to assess the risk of biased estimates of treatment effects. The purpose of this systematic review was to identify scales used to evaluate the methodological quality of RCTs in health care research and summarize the content, construction, development, and psychometric properti...

one of the most important task of the researchers after selection the research topic, is search for various sources and references for gathering data and information about the subject. undoubtedly this search has been more extensive and accurate, value and credibility. accordingly should be said that the number and variety of citation sources and credit is one of the criteria in evaluation acad...

A recently proposed four-quark mechanism is shown to generate the charm spectroscopy and explain many features of the data. The model implies an n, degenerate with x(3415) and a number of new effects. (Submitted to Physical Review Letters) *This work was supported by the National Science Foundation, Grant No. PHY76-24629AOl. tWork supported in part by the Department of Energy.

Do you have any strong views on journals and the peer review system? The peer review system isn’t perfect, but I think it will continue to be better than the alternatives as long as we have hardworking and judicious editors. It worries me that an increasing number of action letters appear to have been written by someone who hasn’t read the article, and just took a head count of reviewers in fav...

The aim of the NoAH deliverable D0.1 is to summarise and to analyse the state–of–the–art related to the aims of the NoAH project. This document focuses on surveying existing honeypot architectures and security monitoring infrastruc-tures, contrasting their relative advantages, and investigating their interoperability issues. The state–of–the–art is divided into the three categories projects, to...