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Discrete Event Simulation for Decision Modeling in Health Care
Matthew J Glover, Edmund Jones, Katya L Masconi, Michael J Sweeting, Simon G Thompson, SWAN collaborators, SWAN Collaborative Group
May 24, 2018
Markov models are often used to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of new healthcare interventions but they are sometimes not flexible enough to allow accurate modeling or investigation of alternative scenarios and policies. A...
Meta-analysis of the current prevalence of screen-detected abdominal aortic aneurysm in women.
BACKGROUND: Although women represent an increasing proportion of those presenting with abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) rupture, the current prevalence of AAA in women is unknown. The contemporary population prevalence of...
Safety of blood donation by individuals over age 70 and their contribution to the blood supply in five developed countries
Mindy Goldman, Marc Germain, Yves Grégoire, Ralph R Vassallo, Hany Kamel, Marjorie Bravo, David O Irving, Emanuele Di Angelantonio, Whitney R Steele, Sheila F O'Brien, Biomedical Excellence for Safer Transfusion Collaborative (BEST) Investigators
Jan 29, 2019
BACKGROUND: Some countries impose an upper age limit on whole blood and double RBC donation while others do not. We evaluated the safety of blood donation in older individuals (≥71 years), and their contribution to the blood...
The British Neurosurgical Trainee Research Collaborative
Aswin Chari, Aimun A Jamjoom, Ellie Edlmann, Aminul I Ahmed, Ian C Coulter, Ruichong Ma, Paul May, Paul M Brennan, Peter JA Hutchinson, Angelos G Kolias, British Neurosurgical Trainee Research Collaborative
Nov 28, 2018
Since its inception in 2012, the British Neurosurgical Trainee Research Collaborative (BNTRC) has established itself as a robust example of a trainee-led research collaborative. This article summarises the work of the...
Effectiveness of a quality improvement collaborative in reducing time to surgery for patients requiring emergency cholecystectomy.
JR Bamber, TJ Stephens, DA Cromwell, E Duncan, GP Martin, NF Quiney, JF Abercrombie, IJ Beckingham, Cholecystectomy Quality Improvement Collaborative
Oct 11, 2019
BACKGROUND: Acute gallstone disease is a high-volume emergency general surgery presentation with wide variations in the quality of care provided across the UK. This controlled cohort evaluation assessed whether participation in...
Collaborative Writing in the Intelligence Community
With new and evolving technology and ever-increasing remote collaboration, intelligence reporting processes are at a crossroads. Key questions about how best to collaboratively produce reports to get the right information to the...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
Research in progress--LungSEARCH
UNLABELLED: Low-dose CT screening for lung cancer is effective but expensive. Therefore, cheaper or more focused screening strategies may be required. LungSEARCH is a randomised prospective trial of 1568 high-risk individuals...
Winthrop Alumna Hannah Swan '14 Receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Winthrop University
Jan 01, 0001
Swan, of Fort Mill, is pursuing a Ph.D. in computing (track in graphics and visualization) at the University of Utah. The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program assists Fellows in developing expertise in critical STEM areas.
Published by: Winthrop University
Collaborative facilitation and collaborative inhibition in virtual environments
Worldwide, organizations and small and medium-sized enterprises have already disruptively changed in many ways their physiological inner mechanisms, because of information and communication technologies (ICT) revolution....
Collaborative creativity in instrumental group music learning as a site for enhancing pupil wellbeing
This study explores the nature of the elements that co-influence collaborative creativity in instrumental group music learning and the intrinsic potential for enhancing pupil wellbeing as evidenced in a particular...
Teachers' Attitudes Towards the Effectiveness of Collaborative Reflection Support Method
This study aimed to explore how minute paper method (MPM) reconstructs the attitude towards the collaborative reflection among ten primary school English teachers with different levels of achievement goal (AG) and community...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
COVID-19
For the last few decades, the business practices have primarily been focusing on the green and sustainable practices that mainly focus on the preservation of the environment and correspond to corporate social responsibility. But...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
Effects of Different Leadership Styles on Cognitive Engagement in Online Collaborative Learning
The collaborative learning approach as a universal teaching strategy is widely used in online learning. It is proven that the group leader has an important impact on group collaborative knowledge construction in online...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
The Max-Min Group Contest
We investigate a group all-pay auction in which each group's effort is represented by the minimum among the effort levels exerted by the group members and the prize is a group-specific public good. We fully characterize the...
The Max-Min Group Contest
We investigate a group all-pay auction in which each group's effort is represented by the minimum among the effort levels exerted by the group members and the prize is a group-specific public good. We fully characterize the...
Variations in hemoglobin measurement and eligibility criteria across blood donation services are associated with differing low-hemoglobin deferral rates
Saurabh Zalpuri, Bas Romeijn, Elias Allara, Mindy Goldman, Hany Kamel, Jed Gorlin, Ralph Vassallo, Yves Grégoire, Naoko Goto, Peter Flanagan, Joanna Speedy, Andreas Buser, Jose Mauro Kutner, Karin Magnussen, Johanna Castrén, Liz Culler, Harry Sussmann, Femmeke J Prinsze, Kevin Belanger, Veerle Compernolle, Pierre Tiberghien, Jose Manuel Cardenas, Manish J Gandhi, Kamille A West, Cheuk-Kwong Lee, Sian James, Deanne Wells, Laurie J Sutor, Silvano Wendel, Matthew Coleman, Axel Seltsam, Kimberly Roden, Whitney R Steele, Milos Bohonek, Ramir Alcantara, Emanuele Di Angelantonio, Katja van den Hurk, BEST Collaborative Study Group
Jan 10, 2020
BACKGROUND: Determination of blood donor hemoglobin (Hb) levels is a pre-requisite to ensure donor safety and blood product quality. We aimed to identify Hb measurement practices across blood donation services and to what extent...
Integration of Examination Strategies in E-Learning Platform for Assessment of Collaborative Activities
In this article, the authors propose a set of examination strategies for distributing tasks of collaborative activities. The first purpose behind this proposal is to assess fairly the learners who are involved in group or team...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
Using VR for Collaborative Learning
Although virtual reality (VR) has been technologically possible for decades, both logistical and pedagogical limitations have slowed progress relating to collaborating with others in virtual reality environments. This article...
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Tocilizumab in patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 (RECOVERY)
RECOVERY Collaborative Group
May 25, 2021
BACKGROUND: In this study, we aimed to evaluate the effects of tocilizumab in adult patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 with both hypoxia and systemic inflammation. METHODS: This randomised, controlled, open-label...
Proceedings of the 2019 GRAPPA Collaborative Research Network Meeting.
Robin Waxman, Carmel Stober, Deepak R Jadon, Ana-Maria Orbai, Vinod Chandran, Alexis Ogdie, Stephen R Pennington, Maarten de Wit, Denis O'Sullivan, Philip J Mease, April W Armstrong, Kristina Callis Duffin, Philip S Helliwell, Leonieke JJ van Mens, Christopher T Ritchlin, Oliver FitzGerald
Apr 06, 2020
At the 2019 Group for Research and Assessment of Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis-Collaborative Research Network annual meeting, the group presented its progress in selecting a database platform; items to include in an...
Collaborative inhibition and semantic recall
Two experiments investigated the recall of nominal and collaborating groups to test the hypotheses that (a) semantic memory, as well as episodic memory, is disrupted by collaborative recall and (b) both episodic and semantic...
Cross-phenotype analysis of Immunochip data identifies KDM4C as a relevant locus for the development of systemic vasculitis.
Lourdes Ortiz-Fernández, Francisco David Carmona, Raquel López-Mejías, Maria Francisca González-Escribano, Paul A Lyons, Ann W Morgan, Amr H Sawalha, Peter A Merkel, Kenneth GC Smith, Miguel A González-Gay, Javier Martín, UK GCA Consortium, Turkish Takayasu Study Group, Vasculitis Clinical Research Consortium, IgAV Study Group, AAV Study group Spanish GCA Study Group
Apr 18, 2018
OBJETIVE: Systemic vasculitides represent a heterogeneous group of rare complex diseases of the blood vessels with a poorly understood aetiology. To investigate the shared genetic component underlying their predisposition, we...
Autoantibodies outcomes research systemic sclerosis Anti-Neutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibody-Associated Vasculitis Case-Control Studies Epigenesis Genetic Female Genetic Loci Genetic Predisposition to Disease Giant Cell Arteritis HLA-DQ Antigens HLA-DQ beta-Chains Humans Jumonji Domain-Containing Histone Demethylases Linkage Disequilibrium Male Phenotype Polymorphism Single Nucleotide Protein Array Analysis Systemic Vasculitis Takayasu arteritis
Collaborative inhibition and semantic recall
Two experiments investigated the recall of nominal and collaborating groups to test the hypotheses that (a) semantic memory, as well as episodic memory, is disrupted by collaborative recall and (b) both episodic and semantic...
The influence of multiple trials and computer-mediated communication on collaborative and individual semantic recall
Collaborative inhibition is a phenomenon where collaborating groups experience a decrement in recall when interacting with others. Despite this, collaboration has been found to improve subsequent individual recall. We explore...
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