No excuse not to report complications using standardized methodology

HIV: low prevalence is no excuse for not testing.

Using Charity Performance Metrics as an Excuse Not to Give

There is an increasing pressure to “give wisely.” In a series of experiments, this paper indeed confirms that individuals give less to charities with lower performance metrics. Part of this reduction in giving, however, appears to be driven by individuals overweighting their dislike of low performance metrics as an excuse not to give. Excuse-driven responses to performance metrics persist even ...

Standardized report for early complications of radical prostatectomy.

BACKGROUND Radical prostatectomy (RP) is one of the curative treatment options for patients with prostate cancer to achieve long-term survival, but it is accompanied by potential complications. The Martin criteria used as a format for reporting complications has become standard in recent years. However, it has not been applied in RP in Asian countries. In the present study, we investigated the ...

Misused honorary authorship is no excuse for quantifying the unquantifiable.

Kovacs argues that honorary authorship and regarding each co-author of multi-authored papers as if they were sole authors when the performance of researchers is being evaluated by their publications mean that we should require authors to identify what proportion of each publication should be attributed to each co-author. Even if such attributions could be made reliably, such a change should not...

There is no excuse for domestic abuse--reflections on violence.

I could comment for hours about victims I’ve seen over my 25 years in the Emergency Room (ER) who were battered by those they trusted, about swollen, pulpy, fractured faces; about broken limbs, multiple bruises, stab wounds and gunshot wounds that were meant to maim; about panic, fear, hopelessness and about the deaths of some of the victims. I could comment about the horrific effects on childr...