Rapid growth in managed care enrollment is likely to affect clinical research at the nation's academic medical centers (AMCs). Our site visit interviews indicate that managed care has not markedly reduced coverage for research-related care. However, market competition in some areas has limited AMCs' ability to subsidize research activities with clinical revenues. As they gain market share, mana...

OBJECTIVE This article highlights the importance of distributed broadband networks as part of the core infrastructure necessary to deliver academic research and education programs. METHOD The authors review recent developments in the field and present the University of California, Davis, environment as a case study of a future virtual regional academic medical center. RESULTS Achieving the ...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of research promotion activities on overall quality and quantity of research output in a clinical department of a teaching tertiary care hospital. Simple research enhancing strategies including regular journal club, research hour, basic research skills training, hiring of research faculty, research awards, and annual research retreat and res...

This article examines the evolving role of HIM professionals in research. In terms of both growth and credibility, it is important that HIM as a profession become more integrally involved in the research process. Specifically, this article examines the expanding role of the HIM professional in research-related activities and data management activities. For illustrative purposes, examples from r...

Medical schools have recently witnessed a call for authentic research activities that equip students with the skills required for evidence-based medicine (EBM) and research. Because it is not always possible to make such activities available as a part of the curriculum, evaluating the effectiveness of the various choices of traditional and authentic EBM and research skills courses is essential....

1Department of Genetics, Biology and Biochemistry, University of Torino Medical School, Turin, Italy; 2Research Center for Experimental Medicine (CeRMS), University of Torino Medical School, Turin, Italy; 3Department of Medicine and Experimental Oncology, University of Torino Medical School, Turin, Italy; 4Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS) Fondazione G. Pascale, Naples...

This paper reviews the experience in training Latin American professionals and scientists in the ethics of biomedical and psychosocial research at the Interdisciplinary Center for Studies in Bioethics (CIEB) of the University of Chile, aided by a grant from Fogarty International Center (FIC) - National Institutes of Health from 2002 to 2011. In these 10 years of experience, 50 trainees have com...

UNLABELLED Warfarin therapy is underused in the target at-risk elderly population. Clinicians perceive that older patients are reluctant to use this therapy, however the perspective of patients or their carers has yet to be explored. OBJECTIVE To explore in-depth the perspectives of elderly patients and/or their carers regarding the use of warfarin therapy. METHOD A qualitative study, using...

www.icjournal.org Clinical Characteristics of Vivax Malaria Outside Northern Gyeonggi Province Korea Jae Hoon Lee, Young-Jin Lee, Jeong-Hwan Hwang, and Chang-Seop Lee Department of Internal Medicine and Institute of Wonkwang Medical Science, and Department of Laboratory Medicine, Wonkwang University College of Medicine, Iksan; Department of Internal Medicine and Research Institute of Clinical M...

The mnemonic “PICO” was originally coined to help guide a standardized and disciplined way of formulating a clinical research question, carrying out a thorough literature search to answer that question (particularly through the MEDLINE/PubMed) and resultantly generate a fulfilling and all encompassing evidencebased answer to the constructed clinical query. The elements of the PICO question incl...