Misinterpretation

Out of court settlement of malpractice claims: Incorrect treatment of bone fractures in children

... as high as the average figure for arbitration procedures in all other areas of treatment. The essential errors were inaccurate diagnostic evaluation, misinterpretation of the x-rays, conservative or operative treatment which was inappropriate to the fracture pattern, as well as omitted or inadequate control of the fr...

Wrong dose of heart meds too frequent in children

...nd giving drugs, with the most common causes of dosing errors attributed to misinterpretation of the patient's weight, mathematical errors of computation, misinterpretation of orders, giving extra doses or missing doses. In one instance, the patien...

Possible benefit from online genetic testing for lung cancer

...king cessation aids. "Genetic information is complex, and there is a risk that providing unfiltered information will result in heightened worry and misinterpretation of results," said Jamie Ostroff, Ph.D., chief of behavioral science services at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and an editorial board member o...

Online Genetic Testing Appears to Have Benefits

...s & Prevention . "Genetic information is complex, and there is a risk that providing unfiltered information will result in heightened worry and misinterpretation of results," Jamie Ostroff, chief of behavioral science services at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City and an editorial board mem...

California Doctors to Get Wired in State's Largest e-Prescribing Initiative

...atient safety on several fronts," said Leslie A. Margolin, president of Anthem Blue Cross. "This tool will help to eliminate the danger of handwriting misinterpretation or having incomplete patient information. e-Prescribing can also flag drug-to-drug interactions and allergies at the point of care." "e-Prescribi...

How social insects recognize dead nestmates

...essor of entomology at UCR. Choe explained that the research paper's results resolve a conundrum of long-standing in animal behavior and correct a misinterpretation of previous results that has become both popular and widespread in literature. "There is no mistaking that it is the dissipation of chemical signa...

ARCADIS Awarded First PPP Hospital Project in Germany

...ds and technical requirements. The aim is to offer private parties flexibility to achieve the desired efficiency gains while at the same time avoiding misinterpretation and allowing for comparability of the final offers. For ARCADIS and Stein Projektmanagement the contract has a fee volume of EUR 2.26 million for five...

Experts Lay to Rest Long-Held Misconceptions About High Fructose Corn Syrup at ILSI-USDA Workshop

...perimental outcomes derived from pure fructose or pure glucose, or from experiments in which fructose exceeds 10% of total energy," wrote White. "The misinterpretation of such studies as cautions against moderate dietary fructose and high fructose corn syrup use is simply not justified." Growing Body of Eviden...

New Book Exposes 'Junk Science,' Conflicts of Interest, Disease Guidelines Affecting Millions

...e disease; findings which called the guidelines formation process "flawed." The IDSA Lyme disease guidelines are sometimes called "restrictive." misinterpretation may prevent diagnosis, treatment access, and insurance coverage. "I researched what I felt was an alarming trend -- the denial of illness by those pre...

Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority Releases December Advisory

...ety risks according to analysis provided in the 2008 December Pennsylvania Patient Safety Advisory. Potential patient safety risks related to the misinterpretation of living wills and DNR orders may inadvertently result in the delivery of unwanted care or the withdrawing or withholding of otherwise appropriate ca...

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Experts lay to rest long-held misconceptions about high fructose corn syrup at ILSI-USDA workshop

...xperimental outcomes derived from pure fructose or pure glucose, or from experiments in which fructose exceeds10% of total energy," wrote White. "The misinterpretation of such studies as cautions against moderate dietary fructose and high fructose corn syrup use is simply not justified." Growing Body of Evidence ...

Genome Medicine: Bridging the gap between research and clinical practice

...uss the practical and ethical challenges of using information relating to ethnicity and ancestry in medical research and warn 'Given the potential for misinterpretation and misapplication of research findings, great care must be used in the characterization of study samples and the interpretation of observations', not...

Call Stephen Michnick a gene grammarian

...the middle, which is comparable to a defective printer that transcribes only the last words of a sentence," Dr. Michnick says. "In a living cell, such misinterpretation of genes might be thought to have devastating effects, but we found that under some conditions, misreading genes might be useful." In the PLoS st...

FBI unveils science of anthrax investigation

...nother laboratory, showed high silicon and oxygen signals that led them to conclude that the spores were a weaponized form, says Kotula. "The possible misinterpretation of the SEM results arose because microanalysis in the SEM is not a surface-sensitive tool," says Kotula. "Because a spore body can be 1.5 to 2 microns...

Census of Marine Life lists 122,500 known species, over halfway to complete inventory by Oct. 2010

...rchers investigating fisheries, invasive species, threatened species and marine ecosystem functioning, as well as to educators. It will eliminate the misinterpretation of names, confusion over Latin spellings, redundancies and a host of other problems that sow confusion and slow scientific progress." Some specie...

Wanted: 40,000 more health IT professionals

...record environment. The study posits Stage 4 as an advanced level of HIT adoption. Stage 4 includes computerized physician order entry (CPOE) to avoid misinterpretation of handwritten prescriptions, for example, and other forms of clinical decision support that have been show to be associated with improvements in the ...

Misinterpretation in Biological Technology

Sanofi-aventis Announces Second Quarter 2009 Results

... the world, such as the EMEA and the FDA, and by patient associations and scientific bodies like the ADA, the AACE and the IDF, cautioning against any misinterpretation of or over-reaction to these data. On July 6, 2009 sanofi-aventis announced the results of a 5-year study of Lantus ((R)) versus NPH insulin ...

FBI unveils science of anthrax investigation

...nother laboratory, showed high silicon and oxygen signals that led them to conclude that the spores were a weaponized form, says Kotula. "The possible misinterpretation of the SEM results arose because microanalysis in the SEM is not a surface-sensitive tool," says Kotula. "Because a spore body can be 1.5 to 2 microns...

FBI unveils science of anthrax investigation

...nother laboratory, showed high silicon and oxygen signals that led them to conclude that the spores were a weaponized form, says Kotula. "The possible misinterpretation of the SEM results arose because microanalysis in the SEM is not a surface-sensitive tool," says Kotula. "Because a spore body can be 1.5 to 2 microns...

HIPAA Privacy Rule Impedes Biomedical Research

...HC). HIPAA Creating Barriers to Research and Discovery describes the unintended disruptive consequences of the rule, including confusion for patients, misinterpretation by research participants, barriers to patient recruitment, and burdensome administrative procedures that increase research costs. It also offers speci...

Economic outlook for 2007, and still clueless on Apple

...es, and they are up dramatically. Media still clueless on Apple At the Executive Club luncheon, one incredible issue around the table was the misinterpretation of Apple's iPhone announcement. At our table, which was a good cross-section of PR firms, a manufacturing firm, a real estate firm, a trade consulat...

Endotoxins and their Relevance in R&D ApplicationsLPS Detection & Removal Methods

...detection services serve the needs of scientist of the bioresearch and bioprocess markets thereby helping to avoid artefacts and misinterpretation caused by endotoxin contamination when performing highly sensitive stimulation experiments in cell culture or animal models. ...

Kodak in vivo imaging system: precise coregistration of molecular imaging with anatomical X-ray imaging in animals

.... Although the overlay methods are beneficial, repeated imaging of the same animal in different imaging sessions often results in misinterpretation of the signal localization as animal repositioning is difficult. The white-light reference image may be suitable for localizatio...

Comparison of PCR Kleen Spin Columns to Traditional Methods for Purification of PCR Products Prior to Sequencing, Rev A

... ases the quality of the sequencing scans significantly. Primer- or RNA-contaminated samples exhibit a high background and lead to misinterpretation of sequencing data. Contamination with nucleases, salts, nucleotides, and ethanol decreases read length and signal intensity and...

EndoFree Plasmid Kits

...lso induce nonspecific activation of immune responses in immune cells such as macrophages and B cells, which can lead to misinterpretation of transfection results. These responses include induced synthesis of proteins and lipids such as IL-1 and prostaglandin...

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Scientific method

... of the scientific method ... The scientific method is the best way yet discovered for winnowing the truth ... This criticism is based on a misinterpretation of the scientific method . ... The "hypothetico-deductive method " taught to students is not even a method at all. It's an incorrect logical ...