Reliance on bibliometric databases can let you down

Delayed Lead Perforation: Can We Ever Let the Guard Down?

Lead perforation is a major complication of cardiac rhythm management devices (CRMD), occurring in about 1%. While most lead perforations occur early, numerous instances of delayed lead perforation (occurring >30 days after implantation) have been reported in the last few years. Only about 40 such cases have been published, with the majority occurring <1 year after implantation. Herein, we desc...

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Coming down on drug databases

Sir, We must thank Tom Fahey for outlining the problems and barriers to applying evidence obtained from clinical trials into our everyday practice (April Journal).1 Clearly, when dealing with questions such as the treatment of hyperlipaemia, which have significant social implications, rigorous analysis of costs and effectiveness are of utmost importance. But it was his brilliant parody of the e...

"I'd only let you down": Guilt proneness and the avoidance of harmful interdependence.

Five studies demonstrated that highly guilt-prone people may avoid forming interdependent partnerships with others whom they perceive to be more competent than themselves, as benefitting a partner less than the partner benefits one's self could trigger feelings of guilt. Highly guilt-prone people who lacked expertise in a domain were less willing than were those low in guilt proneness who lacke...

Don’t Let The Negatives Bring You Down: Sampling from Streams of Signed Updates

Random sampling has been proven time and time again to be a powerful tool for working with large data. Queries over the full dataset are replaced by approximate queries over the smaller (and hence easier to store and manipulate) sample. The sample constitutes a flexible summary that supports a wide class of queries. But in many applications, datasets are modified with time, and it is desirable ...