Who should have a joint replacement? A plea for more ‘phronesis’

Who should have a joint replacement? A plea for more 'phronesis'.

“How have you been?” I asked “I’ve just had my hip replaced” he responded “Oh, I didn’t realise you had been having hip pain” “No, no, it was never painful” Eddie explained “Just slowing me up a bit and interfering with the long walks I like to take, and with my cricket on a Sunday. And apparently the X-ray showed it was bad, so I thought I would get it done” “Are you pleased with it?” “Yes, it...

A Plea for Harm Reduction Policing Involving People Who Use Drugs

Why Should We Have a Periodic Safety and Performance Program for Medical Devices

Nowadays, more than 10,000 different types of medical devices can be found in hospitals.These devices used in medical centers and hospitals for monitoring and treatment of patients require periodic safety and performance checking in order to have confidence in their functioning and operation. Physicians need better accurate medical measurements in order to better diagnose diseases, monitor pati...

Who Should be Interviewed? A Response from Cluster Analysis

Objective: This article presents an application of cluster analysis for social sciences researches especially those studies that have an interview as part of their data collection. This application is more suitable for sequential mixed method researchers who use quantitative data to frame subsequent qualitative subsamples for conducting interviews.  Methods: In more detail, the algorithm (i....

Should 'Virtual' Mean 'Vague'? A Plea For More Conceptual Clarity in Researching Virtual Organisations

Around fifteen years ago the concept ‘virtual organisation’ (VO) was coined to describe changes in organisational structures of value creation as a reaction to developments in modern market environments. Since then, the VO as a concept has been used to describe different things in different contexts, so that today we find a rather unsatisfying mix of VO notions in the literature. Moreover, in m...