“When you make a prediction, would you rather be correct or incorrect? If your answer is'correct,' then ODA [optimal data analysis] is the appropriate analytic methodology...” (p. xi). With this audacious, provocative opening statement, Paul Yarnold and Robert Soltysik set the stage for a revolutionary paradigm shift in statistical analysis. It is obvious that no one could rationally answer “no...

T     deconstruction has so far resisted historicization. But perhaps the crucial factor has been the continuing presence of its main practitioner, Jacques Derrida, who refused, one might say, to become part of history. Right up to his death in October of 2004, Derrida wrote about some of the key issues facing the world today. So while deconstruction as a ‘‘theory’’ has lar...

As reproduction becomes increasingly biomedicalized throughout the globe, reproductive technologies are used in unique ways and imbued with different meanings. This article explores why lower-class women in south India in the 1990s were demanding to have childbirth labors induced with oxytocin drugs while rejecting anesthesia. Cultural constructions of women's reproductive power are evoked and ...

hether one considers it a curse or a blessing to be born in “interesting” times, such is the plight or good fortune of the current generation. Events and inventions of the past several years strain credulity even for those accustomed to seeing the unlikely occur. There is little doubt that the years at the later part of the 20th century will provide a rich subject for historians as they explain...

Lisa A. Lowenthal is an Occupational Therapy Graduate Student, Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT. Primary care is a key theme in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA; 2010). But what does the term mean? Is there a difference between primary care and primary health care? Does primary care encompass occupational therapy? What are the possible roles for occupational therapy in prima...

THE ESHUN-SMITH model explains the care given to older patients when they are admitted to Holcot ward, Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust. Holcot ward is a rehabilitation ward within the hospital’s new elderly care centre. The model was developed five years ago on Cavell ward by the author and the ward’s co-manager Sue Smithon. It was used as the basis of nursing practice for more than four...

Wound care professionals can improve clinical, patient-oriented wound outcomes and do so cost-effectively by using scientific evidence to meet patient and wound care goals and needs. A review of the literature was conducted to define evidence-based wound management, describe the potential of science to improve outcomes in wound care, and summarize strategies, tactics, and tools for wound care p...

The Australian Council on Healthcare Standards' new Evaluation and Quality Improvement Program (EQuIP) accreditation model reflects the worldwide trend towards incorporating continuous quality improvement and patient-focused care goals into hospital/health service accreditation. We conducted a post-EQuIP feedback survey among senior clinical and managerial staff at a Sydney teaching hospital an...

Objective: Carpal tunnel symptoms are typical outside nerve involvement and a significant reason of inability. This syndrome often causes weakness and pain in the affected hand. Therefore, the researchers decided to perform a study that aimed to investigate the therapeutic effects of Wrist Splint (short wrist splint) in patients admitted to the neurology clinic of Vali Asr Hospital of Birjand w...

Bold is the operative word for the goals in the new five-year plan for the U.S. Human Genome Project as presented at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) advisory council meeting on September 14, 1998. (See Box 1 for an overview of the 5-year plan. The complete plan is published in the October 23, 1998 issue of Science.) The plan itself includes such words as ‘‘ambitious’’ and e...