Misguided Residency Questions

Misguided Policy?

A misguided lead.

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Misguided guidelines for managing labor.

In a recent review we expressed concerns about new guidelines for the assessment and management of labor recommended jointly by the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM). These guidelines are based heavily on a new concept of how cervical dilatation and fetal descent progress, derived from the work of Zhang et al. In their...

Misguided Effort With Elusive Implications.

In retrospect, the decision to use new, mostly untested procedures1 for a large replication project was foolish. When planning the Registered Replication Report (RRR) on ego depletion (Hagger et al., 2016, this issue), Hagger asked Baumeister for suggestions. Baumeister nominated several procedures that have been used in successful studies of ego depletion for years. But none of Baumeister’s su...

Mistakes, misguided moments, and manslaughter.