Comparative effectiveness research (CER) seeks to assist consumers, clinicians, purchasers, and policy makers to make informed decisions to improve health care at both the individual and population ...

Vol. 39, No. 4, Special Issue—Observation in Emotional and/or Behavioral Disorders Research (August 2014), pp. 211-227 (17 pages) Published By: Sage Publications, Inc. Direct observation recording ...

Structured observation studies of managers and supervisors completed before Mintzberg (1968), Mintzberg's work (1968, 1973), and recent contributions are reviewed. Integration of the results of this ...

Satellite scatterometers play a crucial role in monitoring ocean surface winds, with their accuracy directly impacting weather forecasting and climate research. However, rainfall has consistently ...

Observation of nurses during drug administration at a U.K. hospital did not significantly affect the MAE rate; nor did tactful interventions made by the observers to prevent serious errors. Observer ...

Statisticians point out that medical and other observational studies often produce results that are later shown to be incorrect. They now suggest ways to fix the system. S. Stanley Young, assistant ...

Student evaluations of teaching (SET) are a popular measure of teaching effectiveness, which center students’ perspectives. However, research shows that SET scores have limitations, including ...

The scientific method has been the gold standard in analysis for at least 400 years, but you wouldn’t know that from reading much financial research. Untested market truisms, spurious correlations and ...