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Iconico - Tools and services for
graphic designers and web developers. Iconico. Accessed on 2005-04-21. This
company produces several useful web authoring utilities including tools for measuring length,
angles, and areas on a computer screen. www.iconico.com/index.aspx [Filed under
writing resources]
NIH
Data Sharing Policy. Office of Extramural Research, U.S. National Institutes of
Health. Accessed on 2005-04-20. Data sharing is essential for expedited translation of
research results into knowledge, products and procedures to improve human health. The Final
NIH Statement on Sharing Research Data was published in the NIH Guide on February 26, 2003.
This is an extension of NIH policy on sharing research resources, and reaffirms NIH support
for the concept of data sharing. The new policy becomes effective with the October 1, 2003
receipt date for applications or proposals to NIH. grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/data_sharing/index.htm
NIH
Data Sharing Policy and Implementation Guidance. Office of Extramural Research,
U.S. National Institutes of Health. Accessed on 2005-04-20. Data sharing promotes many
goals of the NIH research endeavor. It is particularly important for unique data that cannot
be readily replicated. Data sharing allows scientists to expedite the translation of research
results into knowledge, products, and procedures to improve human health. There are many
reasons to share data from NIH-supported studies. Sharing data reinforces open scientific
inquiry, encourages diversity of analysis and opinion, promotes new research, makes possible
the testing of new or alternative hypotheses and methods of analysis, supports studies on
data collection methods and measurement, facilitates the education of new researchers,
enables the exploration of topics not envisioned by the initial investigators, and permits
the creation of new datasets when data from multiple sources are combined. In NIH's view, all
data should be considered for data sharing. Data should be made as widely and freely
available as possible while safeguarding the privacy of participants, and protecting
confidential and proprietary data. To facilitate data sharing, investigators submitting a
research application requesting $500,000 or more of direct costs in any single year to NIH on
or after October 1, 2003 are expected to include a plan for sharing final research data for
research purposes, or state why data sharing is not possible. grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/data_sharing/data_sharing_guidance.htm
The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the
mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. F Scott Fitzgerald
(1896-1940), American novelist, in The Crackup, 1936. Quote found at
BMJ 2005;330:783 (2
April), doi:10.1136/bmj.330.7494.783
No Free Lunch. Accessed on
2005-04006. We are health care providers -- physicians, pharmacists, nurses, dentists,
among others -- who believe that pharmaceutical promotion should not guide clinical practice,
and that over-zealous promotional practices can lead to bad patient care. It is our goal to
encourage health care practitioners to provide high quality care based on unbiased evidence
rather than on biased pharmaceutical promotion. www.nofreelunch.org
NetEpi - Free, open source, network-enabled
tools for epidemiology and public health practice. Centre for Epidemiology and
Research. Accessed on 2005-04-06. NetEpi, which is short for "Network-enabled
Epidemiology", is a collaborative project to create a suite of free, open source software
tools for epidemiology and public health practice. Anyone with an interest in population
health epidemiology or public health informatics is encouraged to examine the prototype tools
and to consider contributing to their further development. Contributions which involve formal
and/or informal testing of the tools in a wide range of circumstances and environments are
particularly welcome, as is assistance with design, programming and documentation tasks.
www.netepi.org
Going to the
source: nonproprietary medical software. Chin T, published in AMNews on April
11, 2005. Accessed on 2005-04-04. Open-source EMR software promises to be everything many
electronic medical record systems aren't -- inexpensive, downloadable and easy to modify. But
is this software the best fit for your practice? www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2005/04/11/bisa0411.htm
07/08/2008.
