Renal replacement therapy after cardiac surgery: do not ask “When”, ask “Why”

Renal replacement therapy after cardiac surgery: do not ask “When”, ask “Why”

We read with interest the article published by Zou et al. [1] regarding the timing of renal replacement therapy (RRT) initiation in patients with acute kidney injury (AKI) post-cardiac surgery. The authors claim that their meta-analysis shows that early RRT initiation decreases 28-day mortality in this context. This meta-analysis included a mix of observational (retrospective and prospective) s...

Ask "WHY NOT?" Not "WHAT IF?"

The editor-in-chief asks: with strong evidence in favour of collaborative practice, why has it not yet been adopted across the system? What is holding it back?

Why Do You Ask So Many Questions ?

[N]o amount of telling somebody in mere words that one is or is not angry is the same as what one might tell them by gesture or tone of voice .... Anyhow, it is all nonsense. I mean, the notion that language is made of words is all nonsense -and when I said that gestures could not be translated into "mere words/' I was talking nonsense, because there is no such thlng as "mere words" ... Gregory...

How spinal manipulative therapy works: why ask why?

Why do you ask? Good questions provoke informative answers

What makes a question useful? What makes an answer appropriate? In this paper, we formulate a family of increasingly sophisticated models of question-answer behavior within the Rational Speech Act framework. We compare these models based on three different pieces of evidence: first, we demonstrate how our answerer models capture a classic effect in psycholinguistics showing that an answerer’s l...