Massive Health Record Breaches Evidenced by the Office for Civil Rights Data.

Background: Using data collected by the Office for Civil Rights, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), over half of the population in the USA might have been affected by security breaches since Oct 2009. This study provided analysis of the data, presenting the numbers of individuals affected in one breach and the number of breaches.

Methods: Statistical analysis has been conducted with visualizations.

On the quality evaluation of scientific entities in Poland supported by consistency-driven pairwise comparisons method.

Comparison, rating, and ranking of alternative solutions, in case of multicriteria evaluations, have been an eternal focus of operations research and optimization theory. There exist numerous approaches at practical solving the multicriteria ranking problem. The recent focus of interest in this domain was the event of parametric evaluation of research entities in Poland.

A note on relevance of diagnostic classification and rating scales used in psychiatry.

In the clinical practice of psychology and psychiatry, presence or absence of particular disorder or syndromes is based on the subjective interpretation of mental and behavioral descriptions offered by the patient. This is often done by questionnaires (also called instruments or scales) or by interviews. This subjectivity of the diagnostic decision-making process may limit the reliability of diagnosis.

Improving the medical scale predictability by the pairwise comparisons method: evidence from a clinical data study.

In the clinical practice of psychiatry, presence or absence of particular symptoms is based on the subjective interpretation, by the clinician, of mental and behavioural descriptions offered by the patient. However, this subjectivity that characterizes the diagnostic decision making process may limit the reliability of diagnosis. In this current study, the pairwise comparisons (PC) method is used to investigate whether the psychometric properties of a medical screening questionnaire can be improved.