Improving Outcomes in High-Risk Myelodysplasia: Festina Lente

Delivery of male circumcision services: "Festina lente".

T HREE randomised clinical trials on the effects of male circumcision on HIV acquisition in men have been stopped by their data safety and management boards as the interim analyses showed a large protective effect, in the range of 50 to 60%. It is not only this large effect that makes male circumcision very appealing as an intervention for HIV prevention. Male circumcision is a one-time interve...

Festina lente: the road to prevention of death by suicide.

Improving outcomes in high-risk prostate cancer with radiotherapy.

There have been significant improvements in the radiotherapeutic management of patients with high risk prostate cancer. Randomized trials have clearly demonstrated improved outcomes with the combination of radiotherapy in conjunction with androgen deprivation. While these trials have utilized low doses of radiotherapy in the range of 70 Gy, recent studies have suggested that significant benefit...

Festina lente: evidences for fast and slow learning processes and a role for sleep in human motor skill learning.

In our everyday life, a wide range of motor, perceptual, and cognitive abilities are gradually and implicitly acquired through our continuous interaction with the environment, a process referred to as skill learning. Converging data indicate that skill learning is a multiple step process that cannot be reduced to the acquisition episode only. In the initial step, while the subject is practicing...

Improving outcomes for high-risk diabetics using information systems.

BACKGROUND Diabetes care requires management of complex clinical information. We examine the relationship between diabetic outcomes and practices' use of information. METHODS We performed a cross-sectional, secondary analysis of baseline data from 50 community primary care practices participating in a practice improvement project. Medical record review assessed clinical targets for diabetes (...