Is clinical assessment enough? Moving towards early differentiation of neurodegenerative parkinsonisms

Suicide risk assessment: is clinical experience enough?

Lawyers make short work of “clinical experience” testimony by defendants and expert witnesses in suicide malpractice cases. Clinical experience, unaided by evidence-based research, can be idiosyncratic, insufficient, uninformed, or just plain wrong when applied to complex, fact-specific suicide cases. Both in the clinical setting and in providing expert witness testimony, clinical experience ca...

Is clinical gestalt good enough?

Sample size in clinical research: when is enough enough?

Iodine in early pregnancy--is there enough?

AIMS To evaluate the iodine status of patients in early pregnancy and its dependence on level of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH). METHODS Between June 2005 and December 2006, 168 patients with a confirmed vital pregnancy (up to 10(th) week of pregnancy) were included in the study. The entry criteria were no prior thyroid disease, did not take any other medication, had not undergone radio-io...

Famines in Africa: is early warning early enough?

Following the second Sahelian famine in 1984-1985, major investments were made to establish Early Warning Systems. These systems help to ensure that timely warnings and vulnerability information are available to decision makers to anticipate and avert food crises. In the recent crisis in the Horn of Africa, alarming levels of acute malnutrition were documented from March 2010, and by August 201...