Coverage with evidence development (CED) is an evolving method of providing provisional access to novel medical interventions while generating the evidence needed to determine whether unconditional coverage is warranted. In this article we review the policy rationale for CED and present a normative analysis that addresses ethical concerns and policy implications.

CONTEXT The University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia established the Spencer Gulf Rural Health School (SGRHS) as a joint venture to facilitate rural health professional education and research. Annually a cohort of medical students from the University of Adelaide volunteer and are placed in various SGRHS 'learning centres' throughout rural South Australia for the 5th year of ...

Digital images for the information professional by Melissa M. Terras Author(s) Cronin, James G. R. Editor(s) McCarty, Willard Publication date 2010-03 Original citation Cronin, J.G. R., 2010. Digital Images for the Information Professional by Melissa M. Terras. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 35(1), pp.92102 Type of publication Review Link to publisher's version http://www.ingentaconnect.com...

Although most commonly occur r ing de fau l t ru les are normal when viewed in i s o l a t i o n , they can i n te rac t w i t h each other in ways tha t lead to the de r i va t i on of anomalous de fau l t assumptions* In order to deal w i t h such anomalies i t i s necessary to re-represent these r u l e s , in some cases by In t roducing non-normal d e f a u l t s . The need to consider such...

E-learning in healthcare professional education still seems like it is a new innovation but the reality is that e-learning has been around for as long as the internet has been around. This is approximately twenty years and so it is probably appropriate to now take stock and consider what the future of e-learning in healthcare professional education might be. One likely occurrence is that there ...

This paper analyses the changing environment of LIS education from a Spanish perspective and summarises some challenges that LIS educators and educational programme developers responsible for the information professional of the 21st century have to address in the near future. First, the state of the Spanish educational arena and the main trends in the LIS field are examined. Thereafter, some fo...

BACKGROUND Enhancing competency in patient safety at entry to practice requires introduction and integration of patient safety into health professional education. As efforts to include patient safety in health professional education increase, it is important to capture new health professionals' perspectives of their own patient safety competence at entry to practice. Existing instruments to mea...

The effects of musical interference and noise on pitch-matching accuracy were examined. Vocal training was explored as a factor influencing pitch-matching accuracy, and the relationship between pitch matching and pitch discrimination was examined. Twenty trained singers (TS) and 20 untrained individuals (UT) vocally matched tones in six conditions (immediate, four types of chords, noise). Funda...

Burnout is a prolonged response to chronic emotional and interpersonal stressors on the job, and is defined by the three dimensions of exhaustion, cynicism, and inefficacy. The past 25 years of research has established the complexity of the construct, and places the individual stress experience within a larger organizational context of people's relation to their work. Recently, the work on burn...