Kelly Chibale: An advocate of innovation

Becoming an advocate for cancer pain management.

Management of cancer pain is still a significant problem in healthcare today despite the fact that cancer pain can be controlled in approximately 90% of patients. Emotional, psychosocial, and spiritual suffering associated with the disease complicates the problem. Guidelines issued by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality address management of cancer pain. Pain intensity scales, comple...

AdvoCATE: An Assurance Case Automation Toolset

We present AdvoCATE, an Assurance Case Automation ToolsEt, to support the automated construction and assessment of safety cases. In addition to manual creation and editing, it has a growing suite of automated features. In this paper, we highlight its capabilities for (i) inclusion of specific metadata, (ii) translation to and from various formats, including those of other widely used safety cas...

Hormesis: A Brief Reply to an Advocate

In his commentary in Environmental Health Perspectives, Calabrese (2009) offered a num­ ber of responses to my critique of hormesis methodology (Mushak 2009). Here I will provide a counterpoint to that effort. • Calabrese (2009) falsely asserted that I erred in calculations associated with entry and evaluatory criteria for hormesis frequency, specifically by choosing the wrong denomi­ nator for...

Advocate for our patients.

The consultant as advocate.

Another second opinion consultation, you whisper to yourself as you prepare to greet the young patient who is awaiting your initial evaluation. Ben Stevenson was referred by a member of your study club. You recall reviewing this 11-year-old boy's radiographs early this morning. The film shows approximately 50% root development of the succedaneous teeth with immobile deciduous canines and molars...