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Interprofessional teamwork in decentralized child welfare in The Netherlands:...
textabstractThe recent transformation of child welfare in the Netherlands has improved opportunities for interprofessional working. We compared two models of teamworking within... -
Measuring coverage in MNCH: a validation study linking population survey deri...
Background: Accurate data on coverage of key maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) interventions are crucial for monitoring progress toward the Millennium Development Goals... -
European Non-Communicable Respiratory Disease Research, 2002-13: Bibliometric...
This study was conducted in order to map European research in chronic respiratory diseases (CRDs). It was intended to assist the European Commission and other research funders... -
What is going on?
Previous studies provided mixed findings on pecularities inp-value distributions in psychology. This paper examined 258,050 test results across 30,710 articles from eight high... -
"A Good Personal Scientific Relationship":Philip Morris Scientists and the Ch...
Background This paper examines the efforts of consultants affiliated with Philip Morris (PM), the world's leading transnational tobacco corporation, to influence scientific... -
Healthcare resource utilization and associated cost analysis of the PROCLAIM ...
Objective: To analyze patient-reported swallowing difficulties, healthcare resource utilization and associated costs during the PROCLAIM study. Methods: Patients with stage III... -
SurfaceSlide: A Multitouch Digital Pathology Platform
Background: Digital pathology provides a digital environment for the management and interpretation of pathological images and associated data. It is becoming increasing popular... -
Reporting Recommendations for Tumor Marker Prognostic Studies (REMARK): expla...
Abstract Background The Reporting Recommendations for Tumor Marker Prognostic Studies (REMARK) checklist consists of 20 items to report for published tumor marker prognostic... -
A Model for Good Governance of Healthcare Technology Management in the Public...
Good governance (GG) is an important concept that has evolved as a set of normative principles for low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) to strengthen the functional capacity... -
How Many Scientists Fabricate and Falsify Research? A Systematic Review and M...
The frequency with which scientists fabricate and falsify data, or commit other forms of scientific misconduct is a matter of controversy. Many surveys have asked scientists... -
From Darwin to the Census of Marine Life: Marine Biology as Big Science
With the development of the Human Genome Project, a heated debate emerged on biology becoming 'big science'. However, biology already has a long tradition of collaboration, as... -
Peer review, program officers and science funding.
Increased competition for research funding has led to growth in proposal submissions and lower funding-success rates. An agent-based model of the funding cycle, accounting for... -
Bibliometric Evidence for a Hierarchy of the Sciences
The hypothesis of a Hierarchy of the Sciences, first formulated in the 19(th) century, predicts that, moving from simple and general phenomena (e.g. particle dynamics) to... -
An economic evaluation of preclinical testing strategies compared to the comp...
Cost-benefit is rarely combined with nonlinear dynamic models when evaluating control options for infectious diseases. The current strategy for scrapie in Great Britain requires... -
Validity of Six Activity Monitors in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A...
Reduced physical activity is an important feature of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). Various activity monitors are available but their validity is poorly... -
Evidence-Based Priority Setting for Health Care and Research: Tools to Suppor...
CITATION: Rudan, I., et al. 2010. Evidence-based priority setting for health care and research : tools to support policy in maternal, neonatal, and child health in Africa. PLoS... -
Risk-Targeted Selection of Agricultural Holdings for Post-Epidemic Surveillan...
Current post-epidemic sero-surveillance uses random selection of animal holdings. A better strategy may be to estimate the benefits gained by sampling each farm and use this to... -
A Plea for Neutral Comparison Studies in Computational Sciences
In computational science literature including, e.g., bioinformatics, computational statistics or machine learning, most published articles are devoted to the development of "new... -
Trends in Citations to Books on Epidemiological and Statistical Methods in th...
BackgroundThere are no analyses of citations to books on epidemiological and statistical methods in the biomedical literature. Such analyses may shed light on how concepts and... -
"Can it read my mind?" - What do the public and experts think of the current ...
Emerging applications of neuroimaging outside medicine and science have received intense public exposure through the media. Media misrepresentations can create a gulf between...
