Primary hyperparathyroidism: are we doing a good job?

How are we doing?

Measuring the performance of community safety partnerships 'Safe and sound', published in May 2000, reported the findings of an Accounts Commission study of community safety partnerships. s The report identified the progress made to date, highlighted good practice and made a number of recommendations. The report found that across Scotland, community safety strategies are generally at an early s...

Neonatal pressure support ventilation: are we doing what we think we are doing?

Assisted modes of mechanical ventilation, including synchronous intermittent mandatory ventilation, pressure support ventilation (PSV), continuous mandatory ventilation, neurally adjusted ventilatory assist, and volume guarantee ventilation, are widely used in neonates, infants, and small children to achieve improved short-term and long-term outcomes.1-3 Specifically, evidence is accumulating t...

What are we doing? Where are we going?

Globalization of spine care: how are we doing and what are we doing?

Let me address your pressing first question right away: both, US government officials in charge of PubMed, and our publisher Thieme Verlag, have assured me repeatedly that all of our EBSJ files are being actively (albeit slowly) downloaded as we are speaking and will be available online before years-end inclusive of all previously published articles to date. Delays apparently were caused by a c...

Health-information exchange: why are we doing it, and what are we doing?

Health-information exchange, that is, enabling the interoperability of automated health data, can facilitate important improvements in healthcare quality and efficiency. A vision of interoperability and its benefits was articulated more than a decade ago. Since then, important advances toward the goal have been made. The advent of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Heal...