So. . . what was the question?

Use of clopidrogel in coronary stenting: what was the question?

The oral antiplatelet agent clopidrogel has been widely used by interventional cardiologists for the past two years as an adjunct therapy to prevent subacute thrombosis after coronary stenting. Interestingly, the substitution of clopidrogel for ticlopidine occurred even though no conclusive data existed to demonstrate the efficacy and safety of clopidrogel for this indication, and despite two w...

Disparity Context Processing in the Primate Brain: And If the Question was Both “What” and “When”…

In frontal eye animals, one main cue to depth is absolute disparity, the difference between the two retinal coordinates of a given object. The cortical mechanisms underlying absolute disparity processing are rather well understood in primates. Disparity-tuned neurons can be found as early as primary visual area V1, as well as in many extra-striate areas. However, disparity judgments are impreci...

I S the Imagery Debate over ? I F so , What Was It about ?

If Integration Is the Answer, What Was the Question? What next for English Health and Social Care Partnerships?

‘Integrated care’ has been a key policy priority in English health and social care in recent years – although the extent to which this commitment is real rather than rhetorical remains open to debate. While everyone working in health and social care knows that single agency responses are insufficient when trying to support people with complex needs, there is a danger that ‘integrated care’ beco...

Posing the research question: not so simple.

PURPOSE The success of any research process relies, in part, on how well investigators are able to translate a clinical problem into a research question-a task that is not so simple for novice investigators. The PICOT approach requires that the framing of the research question specify the target Population, the Intervention of interest, the Comparator intervention, key Outcomes, and the Time fr...