Despite criticism that most publication guidelines are voluntary, our survey suggests that the major guidelines are widely known and implemented by publication professionals working in pharmaceutical and medical device companies, communication agencies, CROs and as freelancers.
Google publishes many papers on these technologies, but keeps their own implementations proprietary (their technology stack is too tightly integrated to open-source just parts of it), requiring the open-source community to re-implement the publications.
One potential policy that might, if implemented, improve the publication rate of presentations at the ESSKA congress involves encouraging the submission of a complete manuscript accompanying each abstract or within a set period of time following each presentation.
More recently, doctoral programs in countries like Korea and Taiwan have implemented policies requiring publication in international indexed journals as part of the requirements for conferring the doctorate degree to students who have already completed their research and written their dissertations.
While these changes predated screening in a few locations, most hospitals implemented them after publication of Calman-Hine in 1995 and the IOG in 1996.
Since 2002, various measures associated with suicide prevention have been implemented, such as publication of suicide prevention manuals for the work place and medical practitioners.
Practices in stratum 4 in particular tended to have been early adopters, one practice in this group stating that they started implementing 'HOPE' very soon after publication.
At the same time, the Wellcome Trust and some countries, including the United Kingdom's (UK's) Research Council [ 14, 16], Denmark and Australia [ 17], are either planning or implementing OA policies whereby the publication of publicly funded research in OA journals will be mandatory.
Despite decentralization of the services in ambulatories in several regions overall default rates are quite high, but in line with previous publications from countries implementing similar programs [19].
[ 6, 7] A WHO publication on developing and implementing national drug policies stated the importance of consumers in improving use of medicines [ 4].
