Interobserver Agreement for Single Operator Choledochoscopy Imaging: Can We Do Better?

Interobserver Agreement for Single Operator Choledochoscopy Imaging: Can We Do Better?

Background. The SpyGlass Direct Visualization System (Boston Scientific, Natick, MA) is routinely used during single operator choledochoscopy (SOC) to identify biliary lesions or strictures with a diagnostic accuracy up to 88%. The objective of this study was to determine the interobserver agreement (IOA) of modified scoring criteria for diagnosing biliary lesions/strictures. Methods. 27 SPY SO...

We must--and we can--do better.

PL480 Food Aid: We Can Do Better

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Can we do better than dobutamine?

Rethinking Eventual Consistency: Can we do better?

Today's data-driven internet-facing applications pose unprecedented challenges to the database systems that back these application. In addition to the immense scale of data, thousands of concurrent requests, and low latency response, these applications also strive for 24X7 availability. The big data serving systems empowering these applications must therefore have low request latencies, be high...