Commentary: This study failed?

Commentary: That was then, this is now.

a national newspaper in the UK, the Sunday Times, published a supplement purporting to demonstrate the relative performances of British hospitals in terms of in-hospital mortality. 1 The data were supplied and promoted by a group of researchers from a leading medical school, internationally renowned for its scientific excellence. The publication attracted much public, political and media attent...

Life expectancy--a commentary on this life table variable.

In 1992, I wrote an article on a method of modifying the Decennial US Life Table to accommodate any pattern of excess mortality expressed in terms of excess death rate (EDR), for the specific purpose of calculating the reduced life expectancy, e. I believe this was the first article published in the Journal of Insurance Medicine (JIM) that dealt specifically with life expectancy as an index of ...

Commentary on "predictors of failed primary abdominal closure in the trauma patient with an open abdomen".

BACKGROUND We sought to characterize risk factors for failed closure after damage-control laparotomy and to examine the impact of two broad categories of open abdomen-management technique on rates of fascial approximation. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed (January 2006-December 2008) all trauma patients with an open abdomen after damage-control laparotomy. Patients with definitive abdomina...

Commentary on the DALTECAN study.

Commentary: Divergent Thinking Tests Have Problems, But This Is Not the Solution

It is certainly true, as Silvia et al. (2008) write, that “after half a century of research, the evidence for global creative ability ought to be better” (p. 68). The authors believe—incorrectly, I think— that the reason that divergent thinking tests have not done a better job can be found in the various scoring systems that have been used when assessing divergent thinking ability. I have prese...