Helping the homogeneous

Helping the homogeneous.

T he National Emphysema Treatment Trial (NETT) [1] helped clarify the patient selection criteria and expected risks and benefits of lung volume reduction surgery (LVRS) for patients with advanced emphysema. The NETT built on numerous earlier case series which showed that the greatest symptomatic and functional benefit accrued to patients with a predominantly upper lobe distribution of emphysema...

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Helping a Victim or Helping the Victim: Altruism and Identifiability

Although it has been claimed that people care more about identifiable than statistical victims, demonstrating this “identifiable victim effect” has proven difficult because identification usually provides information about a victim, and people may respond to the information rather than to identification per se. We show that a very weak form of identifiability—determining the victim without prov...

Helping the helpers

One of the many drawbacks of quarterly journals is that material is often not timely. Tragically, the events in the US have an eerie, timeless quality. As I write this editorial, the terrorist attacks are only a week old. No one needs a reminder of the grisly, almost unbelievable images. But as editor of a journal called Injury Prevention I feel compelled to ask how this might have been prevent...

Helping the Aged

In the field of social work it is hard to measure needs, methods, or results. Social workers are overloaded and do not have either the time or resources to evaluate their efforts. Controversy exists as to whether practical help or specially skilled casework, is more relevant to clients' lives. Miss Goldberg's book is the report of a controlled experiment, the first of its kind in this country, ...