Community based interventions--less than perfect?

Community based interventions--less than perfect?

Less Than Perfect Procedure

G iven the high prevalence of coronary artery disease in Western countries, selection of the optimal therapeutic strategy for individual cardiac patients has become an issue of utmost costbenefit importance. During the past two decades, large clinical trials have established the respective roles of medical treatment versus coronary artery bypass surgery in the management of patients with corona...

LESS THAN PERFECT -- Saving Experimental Use Exception for Software Patents

Community-based injury prevention interventions.

Community-based interventions offer a promising solution for reducing child and adolescent unintentional injuries. By focusing on altering behavior, promoting environmental change within the community, or passing and enforcing legislation, these interventions seek to change social norms about acceptable safety behaviors. This article systematically reviews 32 studies that evaluated the impact o...

Less orthodox psychological interventions.

A large number of children present to paediatricians with psychological problems caused by the ordinary viscissitudes of development and of modern day family life, with its high rate of family breakdown and divorce. The paediatrician needs ways of intervening that can unlock or undo hold ups in successful treatment and ensure that the patient with abdominal pain, food refusal, or constipation d...