"Generative AI allows people to produce piles upon piles of images and words very quickly. It would be nice if there were some way to reliably distinguish AI-generated content from human-generated content. It would help people avoid endlessly arguing with bots online, or believing what a fake image purports...
Source: eff.org
"From bugs to unqualified staff, the Post Office's point-of-sale system was inadequate on many levels." The code was poor from the start and the small team of developers were not up to the job. However, the problems were apparent in 1999 before it was launched. Includes a discussion of the Dalmellington...
Source: theguardian.com
A validated scale for measuring quality of simulation scenarios in medical education. "Background Due to the unmet need for valid instruments that evaluate critical components of simulation scenarios, this research aimed to develop and validate an instrument that measures the quality of healthcare...
Source: biomedcentral.com
Background Curriculum viability is determined by the degree to which quality standards have or have not been met, and by the inhibitors that affect attainment of those standards. The literature reports many ways to evaluate whether a curriculum reaches its quality standards, but less attention is paid...
Source: biomedcentral.com
"Global carbon dioxide emissions dropped by 5.8% in 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic slowed economic activity, but they rebounded at the end of the year and are on course to rise further, the International Energy Agency said on Tuesday." Whilst economic growth is sought to reduce national deficits following...
Source: reuters.com
Google Brings Back Human Moderators for YouTube Content | Digital Trends: More human moderators are going back to work to oversee YouTube content, taking over from automated systems that admittedly took down some videos erroneously. "YouTube revealed in late August that in the three months prior, 11.4...
Source: digitaltrends.com
AI Evidence Mapping. Developing a fully automated evidence synthesis tool for identifying, assessing and collating the evidence. “Here, we describe a fully automated evidence synthesis system for intervention studies, one that identifies all the relevant evidence, assesses the evidence for reliability...
Source: bmj.com
Contact Lens Measures Glucose, pH, Lactate in Eye |: At Purdue University researchers have come up with a way of reliably attaching thin film sensors and other small electronic devices to soft contact
Source: medgadget.com
Wristband with Sensors to Improve Lives of Dementia Patients. "At the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration in Berlin, Germany researchers are working on a sensor and software package that would help people developing dementia to slow down the disease progression [by this I presume...
Source: medgadget.com
Content validation of an interprofessional learning video peer assessment tool: Large scale models of interprofessional learning (IPL) where outcomes are assessed are rare within health professional curricula. To date, there is sparse research describing robust assessment strategies to support such activities....
Source: biomedcentral.com
The DPCC-MS communication skills competency instrument. A simple 5 item instrument. "Validation of the 5-item doctor-patient communication competency instrument for medical students (DPCC-MS) using two years of assessment data: Medical students on clinical rotations have to be assessed on several competencies...
Source: biomedcentral.com
A single-centre hospital-wide handoff standardisation report: what is so special about that? "Using a relatively low-cost approach, they managed to implement the system across 15 medical departments, as well as nursing, train nearly 6000 healthcare staff and collect observational data on process reliability...
Source: bmj.com
Evaluation of large-group lectures in medicine - development of the SETMED-L (Student Evaluation of Teaching in MEDical Lectures) questionnaire: The seven categories of the Stanford Faculty Development Program (SFDP) represent a framework for planning and assessing medical teaching. Nevertheless, so...
Source: biomedcentral.com
Sony Develops System for Authentication, Sharing, and Rights Management Using Blockchain Technology: Sony Corporation and Sony Global Education (SGE) have developed a system that will apply block chain technology to the field of education. By using "technology that makes mutual use of educational achievements...
Source: sony.net
Advice to "Complete the Course" of Most Antibiotics Seen as Unfounded: By Joe Elia
Edited by Susan Sadoughi, MD
The "deeply embedded" view that failing to complete a course of antibiotics will lead to drug resistance has no evidentiary basis, according to an analysis in The BMJ . … NEJM Journal...
Source: jwatch.org
Long term gluten consumption in adults without celiac disease and risk of coronary heart disease: prospective cohort study: Objective To examine the association of long term intake of gluten with the development of incident coronary heart disease.
Design Prospective cohort study.
Setting and participants...
Source: bmj.com
Insulin Pricing Target of Class Action Lawsuit: By Joe Elia
Edited by David G. Fairchild, MD, MPH, and Lorenzo Di Francesco, MD, FACP, FHM
Three companies that supply insulin in the U.S. are accused of conspiring to set increasingly higher prices for … NEJM Journal Watch.
Source: jwatch.org
Association of Body Mass Index with DNA Methylation and Gene Expression in Blood Cells and Relations to Cardiometabolic Disease: A Mendelian Randomization Approach Michael M. Mendelson. Riccardo E. Marioni. Roby Joehanes. Chunyu Liu. Åsa K. Hedman. Stella Aslibekyan. Ellen W. Demerath. Weihua Guan....
Source: plos.org
Food Allergy Guidelines Updated to Include Advice on Preventing Peanut Allergy: By Joe Elia
Edited by André Sofair, MD, MPH, and William E. Chavey, MD, MS
Comprehensive advice on preventing peanut allergy has been added to the 2010 guidelines issued by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious...
Source: jwatch.org
Can we accurately classify physicians as high vs. low quality? "Medicare aims to tie 90% of reimbursement to quality measures. The potential for quality-linked reimbursement to incentivized improved quality of care, however, depends critically on whether physician quality can be measured reliably."
Source: healthcare-economist.com