While there is a wealth of evidence articulating challenges to implementing effective models of care, empirical evidence addressing processes and outcomes of transition remains limited.
Complementary to research emphasizing the roles of individuals (both patients and clinicians) is evidence articulating the role of social and other contexts surrounding the individual (27).
In addition to being prepared to engage in the evolving practice environment, students need the skills to appraise evidence, articulate the care they provide, document evidence-based care processes, and examine data from clinical practice.
When the time comes, the president -- not Condi Rice on the BBC, not Donald Rumsfeld in the Pentagon briefing room -- needs to lay out his evidence, articulate a clear, compelling rationale, be honest about the risks and seek formal approval from Congress.
A rich and expanding evidence base, articulated social strategy for the application of the knowledge base and the political will to implement the social strategy (Richmond & Kotelchuck, 1983).
One exception that has tried to drive global priorities based upon the evidence needs articulated by policy makers in low and middle income countries is recent work by the Alliance for HPSR.
A global response to different types of stress, an idea already supported by some experimental evidence and articulated in the gatekeeper hypothesis [ 1], would alone merit a research in which it would be clearly identified as a universal principle.
In order to improve the study evidence, better articulated data collection and analysis according to patient's age and comorbidity including patients affected by advanced heart failure would be worthwhile.
The need for physicians well-trained in problem solving, evaluating "competing claims in the medical literature and by those in medical industries" and capable of "application of scientific knowledge and scientific reasoning based on evidence" was articulated in the report Scientific Foundations for Future Physicians (AAMC-HHMI, 2009, pp. 4 5).
The concept of an evidence hierarchy as articulated by proponents of evidence based medicine is not mentioned, but may serve as a useful and increasingly agreed upon standard of the strength of evidence required to justify a public health program.
