Environmental Limits to Coral Reef Development: Where Do We Draw the Line?

Treating prostate cancer: where do we draw the line?

The article by Drs. Lepor and Donin is a provocative look at a timely topic in urologic oncology.[1] There is little debate among experts in the field that we are overtreating prostate cancer at the current time. Studies are ongoing to evaluate active surveillance as an option for low-risk tumors, even in men with very long life expectancies. However, in this review, the authors have overreache...

Where do you draw the line?

Where Do We Draw The Line? Tolerance of Escalating Commitment To Troubled Projects

Escalation of commitment can commonly be characterized by a series of decisions to persist with a project despite minor yet repeated departures from prior expectations. Hampered by low cost visibility and vague progress metrics, software development project teams often tolerate seemingly minor slippages from project plans as inevitable consequences of embarking on large and complex ventures. In...

Procedural sedation in the emergency department: where do we draw the line?

Mary Jagim is Consultant, Senior Health Care Analyst, E Suite Consulting, Fargo, ND. For correspondence, write: Mary Jagim, RN, BSN, CEN, FAEN, 6030 23rd Street South, Fargo, ND 58104; E-mail: [email protected]. J Emerg Nurs 2007;33:488-91. 0099-1767/$32.00 Copyright n 2007 by the Emergency Nurses Association. doi: 10.1016/j.jen.2007.06.012 A male patient presents to triage in severe pain an...

Replacement of the ascending aorta in bicuspid aortic valve disease: where do we draw the line?