Concordance of provider chart notation and guideline-based classification of asthma severity.

Objective: To evaluate concordance of asthma severity classification physician chart notation compared with guideline-based criteria in adolescents with diagnosed asthma.

Methods: Of 284 urban primary care and subspecialty clinic patients aged 13-18 years approached through convenience sampling, 203 surveys were completed (RR = 71.5%).

World human neutrophil antigens investigation survey.

Background And Objectives: Human neutrophil antigens (HNAs) are categorized into five systems: HNA-1 to HNA-5. Given the importance of neutrophils in immunity, we sought to create awareness of the role of HNA diagnostic services in managing immune neutropenia and transfusion-related acute lung injury. To provide health communities all around the world with access to these services, we conducted a survey to create a directory of these HNA diagnostic services.

A discovery system for narrative query graphs: entity-interaction-aware document retrieval.

Finding relevant publications in the scientific domain can be quite tedious: Accessing large-scale document collections often means to formulate an initial keyword-based query followed by many refinements to retrieve a set of documents to satisfy one's information need. Since keyword-based search limits researchers to formulating their information needs as a set of unconnected keywords, retrieval systems try to guess each user's intent. In contrast, distilling short narratives of the searchers' information needs into simple, yet precise entity-interaction graph patterns provides all information needed for a precise search.

Can University Leaders Effectively Promote Research on Complex Societal Challenges? A Change-Agency Perspective.

In recent years, new expectations have been placed on universities, demanding academic contributions towards solving large-scale, interdisciplinary challenges. This is in conflict with existing insights from university governance research, which emphasises that scientific communities focus on reproducing disciplinary practices that are unsuitable in addressing societal challenges, because the problems associated with them are usually large-scale, complex and interdisciplinary. In light of this seeming paradox, we revisit the question of how-and on which theoretical grounds-universities may still be able to develop suitable internal governance mechanisms that allow them to address complex societal challenges effectively.