OBJECTIVES: This paper describes differences in the way general practitioners in Denmark, The Netherlands and Great Britain make codes fit into the local conditions under which they work. METHODS: An ethnographic study method has been used to collect data in Dutch, British and Danish general practices. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: The paper argues that what counts as accurate data is locally constructed...
Keywords: Diagnostic codes, classification systems, General Practice, Electronic Patient Record, localization, accuracy, ethnography.
01/2003 | Methods of Information in Medicine, SchattauerThyroid volume measurement by ultrasonography (US) is essential in numerous clinical diagnostic and therapeutic fields...
Keywords: Schilddrüsenvolumetrie, zweidimensionaler Ultraschall, dreidimensionaler Ultraschall, Intraobserver-Variabilität, Interobserver-Variabilität, Richtigkeit, Präzision, systematischer Fehler, zufälliger Fehler
01/2007 | Nuklearmedizin, SchattauerBone mineral density (BMD) is correlated to mechanical properties of bone. In the horse, dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) has yet only been performed ex-vivo, but a new portable DXA device would be ideal for in-vivo BMD measurement...
Keywords: DXA, accuracy, precision, horse, in-vivo
00/0000 | Veterinary and Comparative Orthopaedics and Traumatology, SchattauerKeywords: accuracy, assay precision, biological variation, glycohaemoglobin, HbA1c, interferences, patient target control ratings, performance standards, standardisation
03/2007 | Clinical Chemical Laboratory Medicine, Walter de GruyterExtrapolation is a well-known tool for increasing the accuracy of approximation methods. We consider extrapolation of Tikhonov and Lavrentiev methods and iterated variants of these methods for solving linear ill-posed problems in Hilbert space...
Keywords: Ill-posed problem, iterated Tikhonov method, iterated Lavrentiev method, extrapolation, qualification, accuracy, Lepskii principle, monotone error rule
06/2007 | Journal of Inverse and Ill-posed Problems, Walter de Gruyter