Beyond the Bench: Help Instead of Hype

Beyond the hype

Beyond the hype

Propensity scores: help or hype?

In this issue of Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, Kazmi et al. report an evaluation of the association between late nephrologist referral and mortality in a cohort of incident renal replacement therapy (RRT) patients [1]. After multivariable adjustment, they found that patients who reported having first been seen by a nephrologist <4 months prior to RRT had a nearly 50% higher risk of 1 yea...

Web Services: Beyond the Hype

Computer F or the past six months, the technology media has been full of articles about Web services (WS), focusing largely on Microsoft’s .NET initiative. Proponents call it “the next big thing” in computing, and although WS vendors have not delivered their systems yet, there is already a Web Services Journal. WS comprises a set of platform-neutral technologies designed to ease the delivery of...

Instability Training — Help or Hype ?

Activities of daily living and sport performance present a multitude of situations in which an individual must exert force while in unstable and potentially compromised positions. Thus, it has been suggested that due to the concept of training specificity, one should mimic an unstable condition to elicit adaptations that would allow the individual to excel when placed in such a situation (3). A...