Dear Sepsis-3, we are sorry to say that we don’t like you

Dear Sepsis-3, we are sorry to say that we don't like you*

On February 23rd, 2016, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published a proposal for new definitions and criteria for sepsis, which the authors called Sepsis-3.(1) At the same time, the authors named the previous sepsis definitions Sepsis-1 (from 1991)(2) and Sepsis-2 (from 2001)(3) (Table 1). The proposal was prepared by a task force appointed by the European Society of Inte...

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Can we say that seniors are addicted to benzodiazepines?

INTRODUCTION The elderly are the biggest consumers of Benzodiazepines (BZD) and/or BZD equivalents. However, the risks of developing addiction in this age group are often underestimated. METHOD This study describes the nature and extent of addiction in the elderly using DSM IV items. RESULTS We noted a high prevalence of addiction in our population and identified a two-factor profile in sub...

we say what we mean and we mean what we say

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Why do we say what we say the way we say it?

This paper seeks answer to the question why exactly we say what we say the way we say it. Although Giora (1997, 2003) argued that cognitively prominent salient meanings, rather than literal meanings, play the most important role both in production and comprehension of language, most attention in pragmatics research has been focused on comprehension rather than production. This paper claims that...