William Graham Hickey Gamble

William B. Gamble, "Investing in China: Legal, Financial and Regulatory Risk""

Reply to Hickey and Forney.

TO THE EDITOR—We are pleased that our article prompted discussion on the path-ogenesis of bacterial vaginosis (BV) [1]. As a conceptual model with testable hypotheses , this was exactly what we had hoped for, to continue the dialogue on an important topic that has been stagnant until the recent emergence of new work on Gardnerella vaginalis from various investigators. As Hickey and Forney point...

Reply to Hickey et al.

We thank Hickey et al. [1] for their insightful comments with regard to our validation study on EuroSCORE II [2]. With regard to the era of patients, a time bias almost certainly does exist. This is a limitation of many retrospective singleinstitution validation studies, as most units do not have the number, and thus the statistical power, to use a small reference time period. It has already be...

Reply to Hickey and Bridgewater.

It has come to our attention that there appears to be an error in the recent article by Nashef et al. [1]. In the section ‘Calibration and discrimination of the new model’, it is stated that a validation dataset of 5553 records was used (of which 232 died). However, in Table 7, it states that the Hosmer–Lemeshow test was applied to 15 952 records (of which 605 died). A reader might conclude tha...

Europe's Gamble

AFTER THREE DECADES, the quest for European monetary unification may well bear fruit on January 1, 1999. On that date the European Union (EU) plans to introduce a common currency, the euro, in member states that satisfy specified macroeconomic convergence criteria. If the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) project is launched on time and with the maximum membership of eleven countries that curre...