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Translating evidence into practice: how good is good enough?

The birth of the evidence-based medicine (EBM) movement in the early 1990s generated a greater interest in measuring the extent to which scientific knowledge was appropriately applied to therapeutic decisions. Investigators sought to challenge the widespread belief that only a minority of treatments provided to patients were based upon the best available scientific evidence. In 1995 Ellis and c...

Because good enough is never good enough

hsr Proceedings in intensive care and cardiovascular anesthesia 2012, Vol. 4 Corresponding author: Prof. Michael John Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele Via Olgettina, 48 20132 Milan, Italy e-mail: [email protected] And now for something completely different. Formula one racing drivers need to know the track they will be speeding around to avoid injuring themselves and others, and hopefully ...

Determining Relevance: Close Enough is Good Enough

Humans exhibit characteristic success in considering what is relevant in their cognitive tasks. Yet understanding how relevance is determined in cognition remains a problem. This paper seeks to make headway on this problem. The relevance problem is first introduced. Sperber and Wilson’s influential theory of relevance is then discussed, but dismissed as inadequate. Some conditions are identifie...

Is Good Enough?

Hadoop is currently the large-scale data analysis ‘‘hammer’’ of choice, but there exist classes of algorithms that aren’t ‘‘nails’’ in the sense that they are not particularly amenable to the MapReduce programming model. To address this, researchers have proposed MapReduce extensions or alternative programming models in which these algorithms can be elegantly expressed. This article espouses a ...

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