Editorial Commentary: Unguided Glenohumeral Injections—Do We Achieve Sufficient Accuracy?

Editorial Commentary: Pseudomonas aeruginosa Eradication: How Do We Measure Success?

Lung disease remains the major cause of morbidity and mortality for people living with cystic fibrosis (CF) [1]. Dysfunctional chloride conductance in the airways results in impaired mucus clearance, which drives a vicious cycle of infection, inflammation, and airway destruction. Pseudomonas aeruginosa (Pa) is a bacterial pathogen largely feared by the CF community as its chronic presence is as...

Editorial Commentary

Socioeconomic status (SES) is a known risk factor for cardiovascular disease.1,2 However, unlike traditional Framingham risk factors, SES does not directly impact the cardiovascular system but exerts its cardiovascular effects via a complex interaction of biobehavioral factors, such as exercise and diet (Figure). Because these mediating behavioral factors are potentially modifiable, elucidating...

Editorial Commentary: We Are Seeing More Sepsis …. But Are We Seeing the Whole Picture?

In determining how to most effectively allocate limited resources, it is imperative to accurately define the burden of a given disease. As the number of data sources available for epidemiologic analyses continues to increase, clearly elucidating the relative strengths and weaknesses of these potentially valuable resources is imperative. Evaluating emerging trends in the incidence of specific co...

Editorial: review and commentary section.

Is this the era of empirically supported practice? If it is not, it is up to us to make it so. Many of us were trained in the scientist–practitioner framework of the Boulder model, now almost 60 years old, which emphasized training in both research and practice for clinical psychologists, and which seems to make the implicit assumption that the ‘‘science’’ training would help to make the ‘‘prac...

editorial commentary: prophylaxis for surgical site infections