You Are Touching Your Face

How confident are you in your study?

‘How many participants do I need for my study?’ During many years of providing statistical support to clinical researchers, this has been one of the most frequently asked questions. It is posed by medical students preparing dissertation projects through to seasoned professors preparing major grant proposals. The repetition of this question can be frustrating, but does at least indicate that the...

If You Yoyo Are You on Your Own?

In an article entitled "The YOYO theory: YOu're on Your Own" published in Paper Magazine in February 2002, David Hershovits describes the ethic of rugged individualism espoused by airline pilots in the wake of the terrorist acts of September 11, 2001. The acronym YOYO (for You're On Your Own) had formerly been reserved for the case in which an air traffic controller bid a pilot adieu as he left...

Are You Responsible for Your Hormones?

Do you know where your patients are?

Explore SmartNetworksSM shows you what you couldn't see before, so you can make smarter decisions. To learn how Explore SmartNetworksSM can help you keep more patients in network, contact us at [email protected] or visit www.medicity.com. NETWORK OPTIMIZATION • Identify leakage drivers by service line and provider • Capture disparate data in one community-wide system GROWTH PLANNING • Quantify ...

Your decisions are what you eat

The old suspicion that wars are caused by a leader’s indigestion does not seem so far-fetched in the light of accumulating evidence that our metabolic state can influence rational decisionmaking and our approach to risk. For decades, scientists have demonstrated links between the availability and quality of food and behaviour in animals, but it is only recently that these studies have been exte...