P14.24 Are lateral cervical punctures under-utilized?

Under-utilized Corporate Web

Although intranets are well-established organisational information environments, many companies experience that their intranets are left under-utilised by the organisational members. Consulting the standard management literature, it seems the strategy typically advocated is tighter management control. In this study, we examine the use of and the attitudes towards an international company’s intr...

Are C1-2 punctures for routine cervical myelography below the standard of care?

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Recently, the performance of C1-2 punctures for cervical myelography was challenged in a medicolegal proceeding as being below the standard of care. We sought to examine current neuroradiologic practices and opinions on the technique. MATERIALS AND METHODS An 11-question survey was sent to 120 program directors of neuroradiology via e-mail links regarding cervical myelo...

Exploiting Under-Utilized Cores with Deferred Methods

Effective parallelization of fine-grained tasks, such as in dynamic program analysis, is challenging because thread communication overheads may outweigh the benefits of parallelism. In this paper, we address this issue with deferred methods, a novel Java framework that aggregates invocations of analysis methods in thread-local buffers and processes them altogether when a buffer is full. The fra...

The Frax tool: still under utilized.

Clinical trials registries are under-utilized in the conduct of systematic reviews: a cross-sectional analysis

BACKGROUND Publication bias is a major threat to the validity of systematic reviews. Searches of clinical trials registries can help to identify unpublished trials, though little is known about how often these resources are utilized. We assessed the usage and results of registry searches reported in systematic reviews published in major general medical journals. METHODS This cross-sectional a...