Who can best protect patients' rights?

Who can do without patients?

and reasoning skills, and for professional identity formation and professional behaviour. Clinical diagnostic decisionmaking is primarily based on pattern recognition [6], which requires extensive experience with patients. The more the better. Many valid illness scripts in the long-term memory of clinicians are needed to adequately recognize patterns or stimulate analytic reasoning. It has long...

Can we protect our patients and employees from childhood diseases?

Nosocomial infections acquired by hospital personnel pose a special problem for the infection control practitioner. Even in an institution with an established employee health program and clearly designed procedures, an outbreak of measles or varicella causes time-consuming and expensive investigations. Chou et al were prompted by a measles outbreak in their community to review the available dat...

How Best to Auction Oil Rights

A good auction design promotes both an effi cient assignment of rights and competitive revenues for the seller. The two key factors that determine the best design are the structure of bidder preferences and the degree of competition. With weak competition and “additive values,” a simultaneous fi rstprice sealedbid auction may suffi ce. With more complex value structures, a dynamic auction with ...

Vagus nerve stimulation versus “best drug therapy” in epilepsy patients who have failed best drug therapy

Vagus nerve stimulation versus ''best drug therapy'' in epilepsy patients who have failed best drug therapy I would like to thank Dr. Hoppe and colleagues for their recent study published in Seizure examining vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) versus ''best drug therapy'' in medically refractory epilepsy patients. 1 However, I have concerns regarding the authors' methodology and conclusions. In this...

Who Determines Children's Best Interests?