Less Than Ideal: How Oncologists Practice With Limited Drug Access

US Growth in PCI Care—Less than Ideal, but is the Ideal Less?

A n ideal healthcare system aims to provide care that is safe, effective, efficient, equitable, timely and patientcentered. Translation of these aims into practice for patients suffering from ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) could result in an ideal primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) system of care. In this ideal PCI system of care, PCI centers would be equitably distrib...

[Can outstanding research be done under less than ideal conditions?].

Great scientific discoveries rarely originate from small and poor countries. However, the lives and achievements of three Yugoslav scientists who were active in the biomedical sciences, Laza K. Lazarević (1851-1891), Ivan Djaja (1884-1957), and Pavao Stern (1913-1976), serve as an example of success in this environment. These scientists, as well as the majority of other successful investigators...

How to accomplish practice change in behavioral healthcare in less than one year.

This is a challenging time in the field of public mental health. State and federal funding for public behavioral healthcare is declining in a time when the demand for services is increasing. Philosophical changes in mental healthcare service delivery, underscored by the tenets from the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, are creating additional challenges for practitioners. The...

Less than Expected? How Media Cover Demonstration Turnout

Demonstration turnout is a crucial political resource for social movements. In this article, we investigate how mass media cover demonstration size. We develop a typology of turnout coverage and scrutinize the factors that drive turnout coverage. In addition, we test whether media coverage underestimates, reflects, or exaggerates "guesstimates" by organizers and police forces. Together, these a...

How SARS changed the world in less than six months.