An unnecessary risk to children.

Medicare mandatory assignment: an unnecessary risk?

Reducing unnecessary antibiotics prescribed to children: what next?

Common respiratory illnesses such as otitis media account for approximately three-quarters of all outpatient antibiotic prescriptions for US children. Unfortunately, a large fraction of those prescriptions are unnecessary. Over the last 2 decades, efforts to address this problem of overprescribing led to roughly a 25% drop in antibiotics prescribed per child. Considering that, in the United Sta...

Risk Stratification to Decrease Unnecessary Diagnostic Imaging for Acute Appendicitis.

BACKGROUND There has been an increase in the use of imaging modalities to diagnose appendicitis despite evidence that can help identify children at especially high or low risk of appendicitis who may not benefit. We hypothesized that the passive diffusion of a standardized care pathway (including diagnostic imaging recommendations) would improve the diagnostic workup of appendicitis by safely d...

Global State Considered Unnecessary : An Introduction to Object - Based SemanticsUDAY

Semantics of imperative programming languages is traditionally described in terms of functions on global states. We propose here a novel approach based on a notion of objects and characterize them in terms of their observable behavior. States are regarded as part of the internal structure of objects and play no role in the observable behavior. It is shown that this leads to considerable accurac...

Altruism in organ donation: an unnecessary requirement?

Altruism has long been taken to be the guiding principle of ethical organ donation in the UK, and has been used as justification for rejecting or allowing certain types of donation. We argue that, despite this prominent role, altruism has been poorly defined in policy and position documents, and used confusingly and inconsistently. Looking at how the term has been used over recent years allows ...