Home  About us  Contact
 

Force Report (force + report)

Distribution by Scientific Domains
Medical Sciences57%
Psychology28%

Kinds of Force Report

  • task force report
    		•

    Selected Abstracts

    Hospitalists and intensivists: Partners in caring for the critically ill,The time has come,

    JOURNAL OF HOSPITAL MEDICINE, Issue 1 2010
    Michael Heisler MD
    Abstract A report by the Committee on Manpower for Pulmonary and Critical Care Societies (COMPACCS), published in 2000, predicted that beginning in 2007 a gap between the demand and availability of intensivists in the United States would become apparent and steadily increase to 22% by 2020 and to 35% by 2030. Subsequent reports have reiterated those projections including a report to congress in 2006 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services/Health Resources and Services Administration. This "gap" has been called a health system "crisis" by multiple authors. Two important documents have published specific recommendations for how to resolve this crisis: the Framing Options for Critical Care in the United States (FOCCUS) Task Force Report in 2004 and the Prioritizing the Organization and Management of Intensive Care Services in the Unites States (PrOMIS) Conference Report in 2007. Since the initial COMPACCS report and since these 2 additional reports were published, a new opportunity to take a major step in resolving this crisis has emerged: the growing number of hospitalists providing critical care services at secondary and tertiary care facilities. According to the 2005/2006 Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) National Survey, that number has increased to 75%. Since the number of intensivists is unlikely to change significantly over the next 25 years, the question is no longer "if" hospitalists should be in the intensive care unit (ICU); rather the question is how to assure quality and improved clinical outcomes through enhanced collaboration between hospital medicine and critical care medicine. Journal of Hospital Medicine 2010;5:1,3. © 2010 Society of Hospital Medicine. [source]

    Strategy for Implementation of IFAC International Education Guideline No. 9: "Prequalification Education, Tests of Professional Competence and Practical Experience of Professional Accountants": A Task Force Report of the International Association for Accounting Education and Research (IAAER)

    JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT & ACCOUNTING, Issue 3 2001
    Belverd E. Needles
    This paper provides strategies for implementing the recommendations of the International Education Guideline No. 9 (hereafter referred to as Guideline), issued by the International Federation of Accountants. The three principal implementation issues addressed in this paper are as follows. (1) How to instill the characteristics of lifelong learning in future professional accountants through accounting education. (2) How to design and implement a program of accounting education that achieves the objectives of the Guideline. (3) How to develop awareness and encourage adoption of the recommendations of the Guideline by communicating and disseminating information through a series of projects within IFAC's constraints and policies. [source]

    Testing for IgG4 against foods is not recommended as a diagnostic tool: EAACI Task Force Report,

    ALLERGY, Issue 7 2008
    Steven O. Stapel
    Serological tests for immunoglobulin G4 (IgG4) against foods are persistently promoted for the diagnosis of food-induced hypersensitivity. Since many patients believe that their symptoms are related to food ingestion without diagnostic confirmation of a causal relationship, tests for food-specific IgG4 represent a growing market. Testing for blood IgG4 against different foods is performed with large-scale screening for hundreds of food items by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay-type and radioallergosorbent-type assays in young children, adolescents and adults. However, many serum samples show positive IgG4 results without corresponding clinical symptoms. These findings, combined with the lack of convincing evidence for histamine-releasing properties of IgG4 in humans, and lack of any controlled studies on the diagnostic value of IgG4 testing in food allergy, do not provide any basis for the hypothesis that food-specific IgG4 should be attributed with an effector role in food hypersensitivity. In contrast to the disputed beliefs, IgG4 against foods indicates that the organism has been repeatedly exposed to food components, recognized as foreign proteins by the immune system. Its presence should not be considered as a factor which induces hypersensitivity, but rather as an indicator for immunological tolerance, linked to the activity of regulatory T cells. In conclusion, food-specific IgG4 does not indicate (imminent) food allergy or intolerance, but rather a physiological response of the immune system after exposition to food components. Therefore, testing of IgG4 to foods is considered as irrelevant for the laboratory work-up of food allergy or intolerance and should not be performed in case of food-related complaints. [source]

    All mixed up: On the absence of diagnostic guidelines for mixed states in the ISBD Diagnostic Guidelines Task Force Report

    BIPOLAR DISORDERS, Issue 1p2 2008
    S Nassir Ghaemi
    No abstract is available for this article. [source]

    Effect of medical and surgical interventions on health-related quality of life in Parkinson's disease

    MOVEMENT DISORDERS, Issue 6 2007
    Pablo Martinez-Martin MD
    Abstract Motor-related parameters are the standard outcome parameters for treatment interventions. Nonetheless, subjective appraisals about the consequences of treatment on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) are meanwhile established and may uncover important aspects of interventions. We have reviewed the literature with a defined search strategy and collected 61 clinical trials, which have used HRQoL as a planned outcome parameter. The articles were rated similarly as for the Task Force report of the Movement Disorder Society on interventions for Parkinson's disease (PD), but the relevant outcome parameter was HRQoL. We found that unilateral pallidotomy, deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus, and rasagiline are efficacious to improve the HRQoL of PD patients. For many other interventions, the efficacy to improve HRQoL in the PD setting cannot be considered to be proven so far. HRQoL should be part of future trial designs and more research is necessary to understand the determinants of QoL in PD. © 2007 Movement Disorder Society [source]

    The Empirically Validated Treatments Movement: A Practitioner/Educator Perspective

    CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY: SCIENCE AND PRACTICE, Issue 2 2004
    Ronald F. Levant
    In this commentary, I discuss the empirically validated treatments movement from the perspective of a practitioner and educator. I review the American Psychological Association (APA) Division 12 Task Force report (APA, 1995) on empirically validated treatments, its effects, and its critics. I also consider the APA Division 29 Task Force report (Norcross, 2001) on empirically supported therapy relationships and Westen and Morrison's (2001) metaanalysis of a set of efficacy studies. After highlighting the dilemmas that the empirically validated treatments movement creates for practitioners, I discuss how the endeavor of clinical practice differs from that of science and close by considering the definition of evidence-based practice adopted by the Institute of Medicine (2001). [source]

    Sexually dangerous offenders: a task force report of the American psychiatric association

    CRIMINAL BEHAVIOUR AND MENTAL HEALTH, Issue S1 2001
    Jackie Craissati
    No abstract is available for this article. [source]