Framework urges physicians to proceed with caution on palliative sedation

Framework urges physicians to proceed with caution on palliative sedation.

Wikipedia: proceed with caution.

Despite the study's strengths, a minor obstacle in the methodology should be noted. Hasty et al 9 point out that a reporting bias by the reviewers may have caused a discrepancy in dissimilar assertions that failed to show discordance. What 1 reviewer counted as an assertion, another might not have, and thus this was purely left to the subjec-tivity of the reviewer. Different results might have ...

On the road to automation, proceed with caution.

I an old analogy, but an apt one: Automating a laboratory without first streamlining its processes is like paving a cowpath. Ignore that maxim, and your lab might end up meandering along a back road while others are zipping down the freeway. “The best way to start is to get rid of the inefficiencies. That can be accomplished without starting on automation,” points out Peter Bambic, Ortho-Clinic...

Measuring Commercial Bank Profitability: Proceed with Caution

The federal tax code creates challenges for comparing the profit rates of different banks on a consistent basis. The earnings of banks that elect to operate under subchapter S of the federal tax code are not subject to federal corporate income tax, but shareholders of these “S-banks” are taxed on their pro rata share of the entire earnings of the bank. The number of banks electing subchapter S ...

Urgent care centres: proceed with caution.

The emergence of urgent care centres in the United States signifies an innovative response to the demands-public, private and governmental-to control the rising costs of health care. What is immediately obvious to the practitioner, however, may or may not be quite so obvious to the consumer. Simply expressed, trade-offs must be made. In the accompanying article 'Urgent Care Centres', Drs Janiak...