OBJECTIVE The objective of our study was to identify whether a substantive difference exists between the imaging interpretations of radiologists at outside referring institutions and those of radiologists at a tertiary care children's hospital and whether such reinterpretation affects the clinical management of pediatric patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS This retrospective chart review examined...

In Wikipedia, volunteers collaboratively author encyclopedic entries, and therefore managing conflict is a key factor in group success. Behavioral research describes three conflict types: task-related, affective, and process. Affective and process conflict have been consistently found to impede group performance; however, the effect of task conflict is inconsistent. We propose that these inconc...

A comparison of two computer programs for ECG interpretation was undertaken. Twelve-lead ECGs from 300 patients with various clinical abnormalities were interpreted at the National Institutes of Health using version 1 of the IBM program and corresponding orthogonal three-lead ECGs were analyzed by the Glasgow Royal Infirmary (GRI) program. Interpretations were compared with respect to the clini...

The development of formulas estimating glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) from serum creatinine and cystatin C and accounting for certain variables affecting the production rate of these biomarkers, including ethnicity, gender and age, has led to the current scheme of diagnosing and staging chronic kidney disease (CKD), which is based on eGFR values and albuminuria. This scheme has been applied ...

When confronted with a controversy such as the reason for the shape bias, one wonders, as Rodney King once did, ‘Why can’t we all just get along?’ Is there some combination of theory and data that could be acceptable to all parties? Often such conflict resolutions come from showing the parties are talking at cross purposes and that, once one clarifies terms and meanings, they can all live toget...

Perhaps the most striking feature of the subject of politics is how prone it is to disagreement—only religion and morality rival politics as a source of disagreement. There are three main features of political disagreements I want to point out: (i) They are very widespread. It isn’t just a few people disagreeing about a few issues; rather, any two randomly-chosen people are likely to disagree a...

Kur’an’da çokanlamlı lafızların medlulünün tespitinde müfessirler arasında çeşitli görüşler ortaya çıkmıştır. hangi anlama geldiği hususunda ihtilaf edilen kelimelerden birisi de el-cin lafzıdır. Bu husustaki düşünce farklılığı kelimenin yalın olarak yer aldığı ayetlerde söz konusu olmuştur. Kelimenin eşdizimli kullanımları, bağlamını da açığa vurduğundan herhangi bir anlam ihtilafına mahal bır...