Rib fixation: Who, What, When?

Who, What, and When:

Instant Messaging, or IM, has been growing in popularity for personal and work-related communication. The limited awareness provided by current IM systems combined with the asynchronous nature of IM result in messages often arriving at inconvenient or disruptive times. The goal of my research is to alleviate some of the shortcomings of IM through the understanding and modeling of IM interaction...

Dolphin Imitation: Who, What, When, and Why?

The imitative ability of nonhuman animals has intrigued a number of scholars and, in doing so, has generated a considerable amount of controversy. Although it is clear that many species can learn via observational learning, there is a lack of consensus concerning both what sorts of things can be learned by watching others and what types of observational learning should count as imitation. These...

Surgical Fixation of Rib Fractures

 Class I: Prospective randomized controlled trial.  Class II: Prospective clinical study or retrospective analysis of reliable data. Includes observational, cohort, prevalence, or case control studies.  Class III: Retrospective study. Includes database or registry reviews, large series of case reports, expert opinion.  Technology assessment: A technology study which does not lend itself to ...

Treating early psychosis: who, what, and when?

Early intervention and prevention in schizophrenia is just over 10 years old. The assumption guiding this field is that intervention is likely to be most effective if it begins before psychosis sets in, ie, during the prodromal phase. Although a substantial number of prodromal treatment programs have been initiated around the world, three early programs have generated most of the intervention f...

Health Promotion at Local Level in Norway – Who, What, When, and How: A Response to Recent Commentaries