Due to its rarity, treatment guidelines for vaginal cancer are extrapolated from institutional reports and prospective studies of cervical and anal cancer. An expert panel was convened to reach consensus on the selection of imaging and therapeutic modalities. The American College of Radiology Appropriateness Criteria are evidence-based guidelines for specific clinical conditions that are review...

OBJECTIVES The definitive treatment of early-stage cervical cancer involves multidisciplinary decision making. This expert panel was convened to reach consensus on the selection of appropriate therapies based on patient and disease characteristics at presentation. METHODS The American College of Radiology Appropriateness Criteria are evidence-based guidelines for specific clinical conditions ...

BACKGROUND The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) National Resource Center for Health Information Technology (NRC) created the Health IT Bibliography that contains peer-reviewed articles in eleven different health informatics categories. To create the bibliography, informatics experts identified what they considered the seminal articles in each category. METHODS Using the same ...

  Background: Reproductive health problems affect youths in all countries. There is an urgent need to enhance youths reproductive health services to provide a healthy life for this group. In this regard, the present study aimed to evaluate the Reproductive Health Peer Education Program based on the opinion of university students.   Methods :This interventional study was conducted in Qazvin Univ...

Despite the success of both breast conserving surgery and mastectomy, some women will experience a local-regional recurrence (LRR) of their breast cancer. Predictors for LRR after breast-conserving therapy or mastectomy have been identified, including patient, tumor, and treatment-related factors. The role of surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy as treatment has evolved over time and many patie...

OBJECTIVES Locoregionally advanced vulvar cancer (LRAVC) is a rare disease that presents many challenging medical decisions. An expert panel was convened to reach consensus on the most appropriate pretreatment assessment and therapeutic interventions in LRAVC patients. METHODS The American College of Radiology Appropriateness Criteria are evidenced-based guidelines for specific clinical condi...

PURPOSE High-dose-rate (HDR) brachytherapy plays a potential curative role in the treatment of prostate cancer. An expert panel was convened to review the recent literature and reach a consensus on its appropriate clinical applications. METHODS AND MATERIALS The American College of Radiology Appropriateness Criteria are evidence-based guidelines for specific clinical conditions that are revie...

Abstract Expertise is featured by continued high performance in a particular domain. research has primarily focused on absolute expertise structured domains such as chess and emphasized the significance of deliberate practice for development. We investigated development relative commercial part ill-structured domains. Due to ill-structuredness acknowledging use term expert organizational practi...

Quantitative techniques have traditionally been used to assess software architectures. We have found that early in the development process there is often insufficient quantitative information to perform such assessments. So far the only way to make assessments about an architecture, is to use qualitative assessment techniques like for instance a peer review. The problem with this type of assess...

An experimental study was conducted to investigate the effects of question prompts and peer review on scaffolding students’ problem-based learning in a web-based cognitive support system. Ninety-six pharmacy students were randomly assigned to a treatment or control condition. The students in both conditions were asked to generate solutions to a real-world problem on clinical communication in a ...