Did they leave or not?

To leave or not to leave.

Lies, damned lies and Brexit statistics. It's not been a good month for anyone espousing evidence-based policy and politics after the chair of the Commons health committee switched from Leave to Remain, citing misuse of data by the Leave campaign.

Why Customers Leave or Decide Not to Leave – 40

What did they know, and when did they know it?

voted to ease monetary policy, which was widely reported as a lowering of interest rates. Although some interest rates fell with the Fed' s action, the declines were generally small, and over succeeding months market interest rates tended to rise. The yield on the Treasury' s 10-year note, for example, which had been 5.63 percent on January 30, and which closed at 5.60 percent on January 31, st...

Chinese pediatricians face a crisis: should they stay or leave?

Chinese pediatricians face a crisis. Not only is there a shortage of pediatricians, but their numbers are actually decreasing. In 2012, there was only 0.43 pediatric specialist for every 1000 children, or ∼96 000 pediatricians for the 220 million Chinese children aged ,14 years. By comparison, in the United States, the ratio is ∼1.46 pediatricians for every 1000 children. Based on this ratio, C...

How did they do that?

The study by DiDiodato and McAthur describes work to improve the care of patients admitted to hospital with community-acquired pneumonia. They compare length of stay of patients after the implementation of an antimicrobial stewardship programme that was initially led by an infectious diseasetrained pharmacist and then transitioned to a ward-based pharmacist. To estimate the impact on length of ...