Knowing When to Stop

Knowing when to stop: DNR in the OR.

Generating Effective Instructions: Knowing When to Stop

One aspect of Natural Language generation is describing entities so that they are distinguished from all other entities. Entities include objects, events, actions, and states. Much attention has been paid to objects and the generation of their referring expressions (descriptions meant to pick out or refer to an entity). However, a growing area of research is the automated generation of instruct...

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The development and evolution of any system–person, organization–nation depends on how the system succeeds to bridge the gap between what the system knows and what the system does (with the knowledge). We call this the gap between knowing and doing or the knowing-doing gap. If the system does not do what it knows, it will lose out in competition with other systems, its relative performance in...

Stop and Smell the Roses: Inostensible Propositional Knowledge and Raising the Standard of Knowing

Knowing how to stop: ceasing prescribing when the medicine is no longer required.

Stopping prescriptions for medicines that patients no longer need is an important part of good prescribing practice. Yet, unlike the volumes of scientific evidence on starting medications, research to guide best practice prescribing cessation is rare. This would not be a concern if we could be confident that prescribing is routinely ceased when this is appropriate. There are reasons to believe ...