What heart failure programme works best? Wrong question, wrong assumptions

What Went Wrong: A Programme Manager's Perspective

This paper argues that there are certain patterns that frequently prevent projects from being successful. It argues that many of these fall into one of three categories: A mismatch between the expectations of the funder and the project, the failure to respond to the changing environment, and failure to think through support beyond the end of the project. The paper goes on to consider how some o...

What makes killing wrong?

What makes an act of killing morally wrong is not that the act causes loss of life or consciousness but rather that the act causes loss of all remaining abilities. This account implies that it is not even pro tanto morally wrong to kill patients who are universally and irreversibly disabled, because they have no abilities to lose. Applied to vital organ transplantation, this account undermines ...

Failure to diagnose cervical cancer: what went wrong?

What is wrong with SLASH ?

In an experiment featuring nonlinear optics, delayed choice and EPRtype correlations, the possibility of faster–than–light communication appears not totally implausible. Attempts are put forward and discussed to refute this claim. Quantum theory and special relativity theory are the cornerstones of today’s physical perception. Obviously their intrinsic consistency as well as the consistency of ...

Clopidogrel and heart failure survival: missed opportunity or wrong turn?

c H p a a m C c s o i d c o P t h t 0 s n o s o t m e p p p t a r i t a v w i t espite significant progress in the prevention and treatment f cardiovascular diseases over the past 2 decades, the ncidence, prevalence, morbidity, mortality, and economic mpact associated with heart failure (HF) represent a major nd growing public health concern (1,2). Thrombotic oclusions and thromboembolism are c...