In this case, we explore physician conflict with performing surgery (tracheostomy) for long-term ventilation in a term infant trisomy 18 and respiratory failure. Experts neonatal-perinatal medicine, pediatric bioethics, palliative care have provided comments on case. An additional commentary was written by the parent of another 18, who is also medical provider (physical therapist).

Supervisor’s feedback is both a naysaying and a puzzling concern that has always tormented academics in higher education. Particularly, written feedback on pre-final or final versions of a submitted doctoral dissertation is indisputably the most significant step toward granting a doctoral student supervisee the right to defend his/her research project. It also constitutes a rich source on how s...

In order to include more writing assignments in large classrooms, some instructors have been utilizing peer review. However, many instructors are hesitant to use peer review because they are uncertain of whether students are capable of providing reliable and valid ratings and comments. Previous research has shown that students are in fact capable of rating their peers papers reliably and with t...

AIM The patients' views on the services provided play an important role in improving the quality of care. The clients' view on services provided in psychiatric hospital--a qualitative evaluation is the aim of the presented study. METHOD During the year, 1190 responders--before their discharge from the hospital--answered the questionnaire entirely anonymously--51 questionnes (2 open), aimed to...

Funding: This work was supported by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), grant U01 AG15477. NIA collaborators participated in the design and conduct of the study and in the interpretation and review of the study results. Celecoxib and the matching placebo were provided by Pfizer, and naproxen sodium and the matching placebo were provided by Bayer Healthcare; Pfizer and Bayer did not participa...

1 We are very grateful to the members of our expert panel who provided very valuable comments and suggestions on our model and its assumptions, and on the various scenarios. We are especially grateful to Dr John Holmes (Senior Lecturer in Liaison Psychiatry of Old Age, University of Leeds) who provided advice and further information on the Leeds hospitals study. Figure 8. Variations in hospital...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has been seeking public comments about net neutrality. It is found that a great majority of these comments were written from format letters potentially provided by several campaign groups. Principle Components Analysis (PCA) was first used to visualize the data set and it is found that the data are obviously clustered. Based on this fact, several clas...