Update - September 2004

In this issue: -- A Statement on Racism-- Editorial-- Review and Critique of A Statement on Racism -- Homelessness and Poverty-- Review and Critique of the Seventh-day Adventist Policy Statement Titled Homelessness and Poverty -- News from the Center for Christian Biothics-- Operating Principles for Health-Care Institutionshttps://scholarsrepository.llu.edu/update/1074/thumbnail.jp

Exile Vol. XLVI No. 1

44th Year Title Page 3 Epigraph by Ezra Pound 5 Statement of Policy 6 Table of Contents 7 Contributors Notes 37 Editorial Board 38 ART Incredible Lines by David Tulkin \u2701 8 Untitled by David Tulkin \u2701 12 Untitled by Patrick Yingling \u2703 18 Sculpted Body by David Tulkin \u2701 20 Untitled by Tanya Sheremeta \u2701 25 Untitled by David Tulkin \u2701 28 Untitled by Dena Behi \u2701 36 POETRY Wednesday by Mary Ann T. Davis \u2700 9 Music by Jessica Kramer \u2703 10-11 Worship During the Rainy Season by Allison Armbrister \u2701 19 Mercy by Mary Ann T. Davis \u2700 26-27 Albino Lizard by Matthew Martz \u2702 29 Filling of Lake Cumberland, 1951 by Allison Armbrister \u2701 35 PROSE Storm Drain by Matthew Martz \u2702 13-17 Creases by Stephanie M. Vaccaro \u2701 21-24 When It Rains by Matthew Martz \u2702 30-34 Statement of Policy This semester Exile instituted a new policy limiting submissions to those not involved in the production of the magazine. As always, all submissions are reviewed on an anonymous basis, and all editorial decisions are shared equally among the members of the Editorial Board. -6 Cover Art Untitled by Dena Behi \u2701 / Back Cover Art Untitled by Tanya Sheremeta \u2701 -38 Printed by Printing Arts Press -38 Matthew Martz, Albino Lizard, Storm Drain and When It Rains , redacted due to copyright restrictions

Preferred reporting items for studies mapping onto preference-based outcome measures: The MAPS statement

'Mapping' onto generic preference-based outcome measures is increasingly being used as a means of generating health utilities for use within health economic evaluations. Despite publication of technical guides for the conduct of mapping research, guidance for the reporting of mapping studies is currently lacking. The MAPS (MApping onto Preference-based measures reporting Standards) statement is a new checklist, which aims to promote complete and transparent reporting of mapping studies. The primary audiences for the MAPS statement are researchers reporting mapping studies, the funders of the research, and peer reviewers and editors involved in assessing mapping studies for publication. A de novo list of 29 candidate reporting items and accompanying explanations was created by a working group comprised of six health economists and one Delphi methodologist. Following a two-round, modified Delphi survey with representatives from academia, consultancy, health technology assessment agencies and the biomedical journal editorial community, a final set of 23 items deemed essential for transparent reporting, and accompanying explanations, was developed. The items are contained in a user friendly 23 item checklist. They are presented numerically and categorised within six sections, namely: (i) title and abstract; (ii) introduction; (iii) methods; (iv) results; (v) discussion; and (vi) other. The MAPS statement is best applied in conjunction with the accompanying MAPS explanation and elaboration document. It is anticipated that the MAPS statement will improve the clarity, transparency and completeness of reporting of mapping studies. To facilitate dissemination and uptake, the MAPS statement is being co-published by eight health economics and quality of life journals, and broader endorsement is encouraged. The MAPS working group plans to assess the need for an update of the reporting checklist in five years' time. This statement was published jointly in Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, Journal of Medical Economics, Medical Decision Making, PharmacoEconomics, and Quality of Life Research

Increasing Implementation and Delivery of Pulmonary Rehabilitation: Key Messages from the New ATS/ERS Policy Statement.

In December 2015 the Official ATS/ERS Policy Statement on Enhancing Implementation, Use and Delivery of Pulmonary Rehabilitation (PR) was published [1] with the aim of providing policy recommendations to increase implementation and delivery of PR worldwide. Major areas addressed included increasing healthcare professional, payer and patient awareness and knowledge of PR, increasing patient access to PR, improving quality of PR programs and future research directions to advance evidence-based policy in PR. This ATS/ERS document was developed via an iterative consensus process by an ad hoc Task Force on Policy in PR comprised of experts from the ATS Pulmonary Rehabilitation Assembly, the ERS Rehabilitation and Chronic Care Group, the ATS and ERS Documents Development and Implementation Committees, representatives from the European Lung Foundation (ELF) and primary care representatives from the USA and Europe between May 2013 and January 2015. Input was obtained via informal surveys from patients, patient advocacy groups, (including the ATS Public Advisory Roundtable and ELF), insurance payers, as well as primary and pulmonary specialty healthcare providers. The Policy Statement was approved by the Board of Directors of the ATS and the Science Council and Executive Committee of the ERS. This editorial provides ERJ readers with a concise reflection on the key issues addressed and summarizes the policy recommendations made in the ATS/ERS Policy Statement[1] to enhance implementation, use and delivery of PR

Law Reviews and Full Disclosure

Rather I propose an editorial policy that puts in footnote number one the relevant affiliations of the author. If the article is paid for, I would not necessarily require the disclosure of the amount of the fee; the fact that there was a fee would be sufficient. If there were no fee but a client\u27s interest was reflected in the article, I would want disclosure of that client\u27s identity. If the author was a freelancer in a particular field, I would want a general statement that his professional interest lay in the direction of certain types of litigation. That kind of editorial policy would put the law reviews on a high, respected plane, and would give them new prestige and vigor and restore them to what Chief Justice Hughes once called the \u27fourth estate of the law

Blood Eosinophil Count Predicts Treatment Failure and Hospital Readmission for COPD

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This study was funded by AstraZeneca. Editorial support was provided by Joanne M. Faysal, MS, and Jennie G. Jacobson, PhD, CMPP, of JK Associates, Inc., and Michael A. Nissen, ELS, of AstraZeneca. This support was funded by AstraZeneca. DATA-SHARING STATEMENT Data underlying the findings described in this manuscript may be requested in accordance with AstraZeneca’s data-sharing policy described at https://astrazenecagroupdt.pharmacm.com/DT/HomePeer reviewedPublisher PD

Editorial statement: Why do we need a European Journal of Government and Economics?

In this editorial statement we explain the reasons for the creation of the European Journal of Government and Economics. We argue that there is a general shortage of academic journals. Although the new journal we are starting will not solve or significantly reduce this problem, it will represent a marginal step in the right direction. We also explain our views regarding some important aspects of the journal’s policy, such as indexing and open access

Reporting randomised trials of social and psychological interventions: the CONSORT-SPI 2018 Extension

Background: Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are used to evaluate social and psychological interventions and inform policy decisions about them. Accurate, complete, and transparent reports of social and psychological intervention RCTs are essential for understanding their design, conduct, results, and the implications of the findings. However, the reporting of RCTs of social and psychological interventions remains suboptimal. The CONSORT Statement has improved the reporting of RCTs in biomedicine. A similar high-quality guideline is needed for the behavioural and social sciences. Our objective was to develop an official extension of the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials 2010 Statement (CONSORT 2010) for reporting RCTs of social and psychological interventions: CONSORT-SPI 2018. Methods: We followed best practices in developing the reporting guideline extension. First, we conducted a systematic review of existing reporting guidelines. We then conducted an online Delphi process including 384 international participants. In March 2014, we held a 3-day consensus meeting of 31 experts to determine the content of a checklist specifically targeting social and psychological intervention RCTs. Experts discussed previous research and methodological issues of particular relevance to social and psychological intervention RCTs. They then voted on proposed modifications or extensions of items from CONSORT 2010. Results: The CONSORT-SPI 2018 checklist extends 9 of the 25 items from CONSORT 2010: background and objectives, trial design, participants, interventions, statistical methods, participant flow, baseline data, outcomes and estimation, and funding. In addition, participants added a new item related to stakeholder involvement, and they modified aspects of the flow diagram related to participant recruitment and retention. Conclusions: Authors should use CONSORT-SPI 2018 to improve reporting of their social and psychological intervention RCTs. Journals should revise editorial policies and procedures to require use of reporting guidelines by authors and peer reviewers to produce manuscripts that allow readers to appraise study quality, evaluate the applicability of findings to their contexts, and replicate effective interventions

“They whored in Egypt” (Ezek 23:3)—When?

In this essay I make three arguments on Ezek 23:3–4: first, “in Egypt … in their youth” (v. 3) does not refer to Israel’s time in Egypt before the exodus, but to the early political histories of Samaria and Jerusalem. Second, the statement ותהיינה לי (v. 4) should not be rendered “and they became mine” (referring to the event of marriage), but rather “and they were mine” (referring to the fact of marriage). Third, the vocabulary used in vv. 3–4 functions at the local level within the argument of Ezek 23:1–27, but also on a larger level as part of the editorial coordination of Ezek 16 and 23. The allegory in Ezek 23:1–27 can therefore be understood as a coherent critique of Judahite foreign policy, without any reference to traditions of Israel’s origins in Egypt.Publisher PDFPeer reviewe

Biochemia Medica indexed in Medline

Biochemia Medica has been approved for inclusion in PubMed/Medline bibliographic database, from the first issue published in 2011 year. We believe that this outstanding achievement comes as acknowledgment for many past efforts and some recent developments of the journal Editorial Board, such as recent launch of a new web page, online manuscript submission system and the implementa-tion of the revised policy on the Statement of Conflict of Interest. We will continue our committed work to maintain the timeliness of publication, publication ethics and research integrity, and further improve the quality of content as well as the quality of the editorial work and production of the Journal. We sincerely hope that inclusion of our Journal in PubMed will enable us to increase its international visibility and the number of high-quality submissions