Commentary: When complicated statistics may be the best way to answer questions on complicated hearts

When No Answer Might Be the Best Answer

Summarizing Answers for Complicated Questions

This paper describes the multi-document summarization system designed by the Webclopedia team from ISI for DUC 2005. In contrast to the past DUCs and previous designs, this version of our summarizer consists of a query-interpretation component that directly analyzes the given user profile and topic narrative for each document cluster before creating a corresponding summary. This system ranks 4 ...

Screening for complicated grief: when less may provide more.

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to discover screening questions for initial assessments of psychiatric outpatients to identify which patients are likely experiencing complicated grief (CG). METHOD We examined the responses of 235 outpatients to questionnaire items. One set came from the Texas Revised Inventory of Grief (TRIG). This set represented events cited in clinical literature as indicators ...

Aggressive approach to complicated appendicitis in children

  Objective(s): Appendicitis remains the most common condition in the pediatric population requiring emergency abdominal operation. Management of acute simple appendicitis is well described but controversy remains as to the optimal treatment of complicated appendicitis. Common complications of acute appendicitis include: localized peritonitis and abscess formation, flegmon and general perito...

Editorial commentary: linking process measures to outcome for patients with complicated urinary tract infection: it's complicated.

Defining best practice and measuring compliance with standards for the management of infection is challenging. Quality indicators (QIs), many of which measure process, are being increasingly developed to address these challenges [1– 4], in some cases using a “bundle” approach where compliance is measured as “all or nothing” [5]. One could argue that these process measures end up measuring what ...