Take time to sharpen the saw

An Audit of Perioperative Antimicrobial Prophylaxis: Time to Take Action

Neuronal tuning: To Sharpen or Broaden?

Sensory and motor variables are typically represented by a population of broadly tuned neurons. A coarser representation with broader tuning can often improve coding accuracy, but sometimes the accuracy may also improve with sharper tuning. The theoretical analysis here shows that the relationship between tuning width and accuracy depends crucially on the dimension of the encoded variable. A ge...

Realigning the JAOA to sharpen our focus.

Rogers • Editorial T osteopathic medical profession is in the midst of unprecedented growth. By way of perspective, when the American Osteopathic Association’s editor in chief, Gilbert E. D’Alonzo, Jr, DO, JAOA Associate Editor Michael M. Patterson, PhD, and I were new to the profession, the nation had only a handful of osteopathic medical colleges, and JAOA—The Journal of the American Osteopat...

Time to take CT screening to the next level?

The paper by POMPE et al. [1] in this edition of the European Respiratory Journal investigated subjects from the National Lung Cancer Screening Trial (NLST), whose cause of death was recorded as being a respiratory illness other than lung cancer. The patients’ computed tomography (CT) scans were retrospectively reviewed and compared with the NLST participants of the CT arm who were still alive....

It’s Time to Take This Method Seriously

The common phenomena of white-coat and masked hypertension have established the need for assessing blood pressure (BP) out of the office, particularly using 24-hour ambulatory monitoring (ABPM). In the last 2 decades, evidence on the usefulness of the alternative method for out-of-office BP assessment, namely home BP monitoring (HBPM), has accumulated, and guidelines on using this method have r...