Delirium is a serious condition associated with poor outcomes which can be prevented and treated if recognised early. Older people and people with dementia or severe illness are more at risk of delirium. SQiD is a simple prompt question which asks, "Is this patient more confused than before?" Focusing specifically on patients aged 75 and over, this project aimed to increase awareness and usage ...

Excerpt] The second annual Product and Service Innovation Conference was held in February 2005 in Park City, Utah. The conference brought together over 40 distinguished and upcoming scholars from 30 flagship universities all over the United States. The purpose of the conference is to unite leading scholars in the fields of operations management and marketing and to promote an open dialog among ...

Music information retrieval (MIR) as a nascent discipline is blessed with a multi-disciplinary group of people endeavoring to bring their respective knowledge-bases and research paradigms to bear on MIR problems. Communication difficulties across disciplinary boundaries, however, threaten to impede the maturation of MIR into a full-fledge discipline. The principal causes of the communications b...

Health services researchers have consistently identified a gap between what is identified as "best practice" and what actually happens in clinical care. Despite nearly two decades of a growing evidence-based practice movement, narrowing the knowledge-practice gap continues to be a slow, complex, and poorly understood process. Here, we contend that cross-disciplinary research is increasingly rel...

Spatial scientific research has increasingly become multi disciplinary. The urge of different disciplines to share disciplinary knowledge and information has increased. However, not many Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs) have succeeded in facilitating the needs of these multidisciplinary research communities. The article presented offers a methodological framework to develop a user centric SD...