Is having broad experience a red flag in the CaRMS match?

Red Bull®: Red flag or red herring?

Article history: Received 22 December 2016 Accepted 27 December 2016 clinically relevant increase in theQT interval, especially in consideration that these were LQTS patients, and thus expected to have a prolonged QT intervals to begin with. As analogy, the guidelines for LQTS indicate that whenever mexiletine shortens the QTc by at least 40 ms it should be added to beta-blockers for chronic th...

Is It Time to Revisit the Red Flag Referral System?

A red flag in sarcoidosis: laryngeal obstruction.

with these measures there is always the risk of irreversible damage to the vocal cords, potentially causing permanent changes in vocal tone and phonation. Today, after 18 months of treatment the patient is doing well and FEV 1 remains stable in the range of 2.9–3 liters (78–80% of predicted value). Laryngeal involvement in sarcoidosis causing upper airway obstruction is rare but potentially lif...

Bid Optimization in Broad-Match Ad Auctions

Ad auctions in sponsored search support “broad match” that allows an advertiser to target a large number of queries while bidding only on a limited number. While giving more expressiveness to advertisers, this feature makes it challenging to optimize bids to maximize their returns: choosing to bid on a query as a broad match because it provides high profit results in one bidding for related que...

Reassurance, Red Flag, or Referral?