Abstract: We provide a descriptive review of the main approaches for carrying out simulation optimization, and sample some recent algorithmic and theoretical developments in simulation optimization ...

Objective Unlike several other fields of healthcare, little is known about the size of ‘therapist effects’ on patient ...

Objectives To investigate what healthcare professionals perceived and experienced as key patient safety concerns in Bhutan’s healthcare system. Design Qualitative exploratory descriptive inquiry.

Objective To provide a description of the Imperial College Mortality Surveillance System and subsequent investigations by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in National Health Service (NHS) hospitals ...

aDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing, China bCenter for Intelligent Public Health, Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Peking ...

Study design Descriptive study, cross-sectional design. Background Tennis requires repetitive overhead movement patterns that can lead to upper extremity injury. The scapula plays a vital role in ...

Background Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) and narcolepsy are estimated to affect approximately 4.8% and 0.047% of the UK population, respectively. We do not know how many people have been diagnosed or ...

2 Max Planck - University of Helsinki Center for Social Inequalities in Population Health, Helsinki, Finland Be upfront about the research study’s intention (this should link directly to the aim) - is ...

Real-world prospective comparison of sorafenib and lenvatinib as first-line therapy for unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma: A multicenter study in Japan (KSCC HAMRET). Sintilimab combined with ...

Descriptive set theorists study the niche mathematics of infinity. Now, they’ve shown that their problems can be rewritten in the concrete language of algorithms. All of modern mathematics is built on ...

Given the increasingly central importance of data aggregators and infrastructures as critical resources for the global research community it is important to understand how they are evolving.