January Articles of Interest

Articles of Interest

Cardiopulmonary bypass with heparin-coated perfusion circuits and reduced anticoagulation is a safe and effective method to improve clinical results in cardiac surgery. Svenmarker and colleagues randomized three hundred coronary artery bypass patients into three groups: Carmeda Bioactive Surface, Baxter Duraflo II and a control group. Outcomes were evaluated using clinical indicators while brai...

Autonomic Neuroscience: articles of interest appearing in other Frontiers journals

As you are all aware, autonomic neuroscience is a multidisciplinary field, in which authors choose a journal based on its perceived impact but, more importantly, on its relevance and readership. Together, the Frontiers journals are broad in scope, yet the areas covered by individual journals within the Frontiers stable are necessarily narrower. Now, to facilitate your use of the Frontiers artic...

Articles of Interest - Anterior Cervical Disectomy and Fusion (ACDF)

OF BACKGROUND DATA: It is known that ACDF constitutes one of the most commonly performed spinal procedures. Its outcome is quite satisfactory in the majority of cases. However, occasional complications can become troublesome, and in rare circumstances, catastrophic. Although there are several case reports describing such complications, their rate of occurrence is generally underreported, and da...

Dr. Nasser Maleki (January 25, 1953 – January 6, 2012)

Misuse of statistical methods: critical assessment of articles in BMJ from January to March 1976.

Sixty-two reports that appeared as Papers and Originals (excluding short reports) in 13 consecutive issues of the British Medical journal included statistical analysis. Thirty-two had statistical errors of one kind or another; in 18 fairly serious faults were discovered. The summaries of five reports made some claim that was unsupportable on re-examination of the data. Medical investigators sho...