'Best care' is not good enough

When Good Enough Is Best

In this issue of Neuron, Rinberg et al. show that mice use a speed-accuracy tradeoff in odor discrimination. Shorter sampling results in high performance for easy problems, and enforced longer sampling results in higher accuracy for difficult problems, but mice freely choose intermediate sampling durations and accuracy varies with difficulty. Reward value and task requirements may determine sam...

Only the best is good enough.

Because good enough is never good enough

hsr Proceedings in intensive care and cardiovascular anesthesia 2012, Vol. 4 Corresponding author: Prof. Michael John Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele Via Olgettina, 48 20132 Milan, Italy e-mail: [email protected] And now for something completely different. Formula one racing drivers need to know the track they will be speeding around to avoid injuring themselves and others, and hopefully ...

Quality of care: how good is good enough?

Israel has made impressive progress in improving performance on key measures of the quality of health care in the community in recent years. These achievements are all the more notable given Israel's modest overall spending on health care and because they have accrued to virtually the entire population of the country.Health care systems in most developed nations around the world find themselves...

Growth Is Good, but Is Not Enough to Improve Nutrition

While it is generally agreed that growth is a necessary precondition for reducing poverty, relatively little is known about the relationship between economic growth and nutrition and, hence, how economic policies can be leveraged to improve nutrition. This chapter argues that growth is good, but is not enough to improve nutrition. During the early stages of development, growth helps reduce the ...