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Adapting Injection Techniques to Different Regions
Published in Yates Yen-Yu Chao, Sebastian Cotofana, Anand V Chytra, Nicholas Moellhoff, Zeenit Sheikh, Adapting Dermal Fillers in Clinical Practice, 2022
Yates Yen-Yu Chao, Sebastian Cotofana, Nicholas Moellhoff
This prominence has a very different appearance in males and females. It loses dimension and supporting capacity with age in some patients. The optimal shape should not be an average or magic number in a ratio but a proportion balanced to the patient's entire face and the neighboring structures. Clinically, there are more male and aging patients who need structural augmentation. Asians and female patients tend to have wider faces and are more likely to request camouflage for over-prominent cheekbones. The transition above, medially, and below is important for facial elegancy.
Quality Assurance (QA)
Published in Eric Ford, Primer on Radiation Oncology Physics, 2020
The gamma passing criterion can be changed. Although 3%/3 mm is commonly used in the community there is no “magic number.” If the criterion is tightened the resulting passing rate will be lower. This can be visualized as shrinking the size of the sphere, which results in fewer points lying within the sphere. In the example in Figure 18.3.1D the passing rate is 98.6% with a 3%/3 mm criterion but is 92.2% with a criterion of 2%/2 mm. Note that the dose and DTA need not be the same number. One might choose, for example, a 2%/3 mm criterion.
Evidence in Medicine
Published in Dien Ho, A Philosopher Goes to the Doctor, 2019
Given the emphasis on p-value in research and funding, there is a strong incentive to engage only in clinical research that would lead to results that satisfy the 0.05 magic number. Suppose the only way to study certain treatment options is to conduct trials that could not satisfy the 0.05 standard (perhaps getting enough subjects would simply be too costly). The practical pressure to produce results that meet the 0.05 threshold would thus create a disincentive to conduct these statistically less significant trials. By singularly conducting studies that have 0.05 p-value, we could actually decrease the therapeutic options that are available before us. Clinicians and patients will not have the opportunity to consider less certain treatments simply because fewer have been studied. In situations where less certain treatments are better than none, the quality of clinical care would actually decrease in light of a rigid adherence to 0.05.
“Here’s Your Anatomy…Good Luck”: Transgender Individuals in Cisnormative Sex Education
Published in American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2019
Steven Hobaica, Kyle Schofield, Paul Kwon
Interviews were recorded, transcribed, and checked for errors by undergraduate research assistants. Transcriptions included gestures, posture changes, emotional reactions, and all spoken words. Researchers utilized MAXQDA (a qualitative data analysis software) to analyze the data after it had been de-identified. Once interview information was saturated and no novel information was discussed, data collection stopped. It should be noted that there is no “magic number” for the number of participants required to reach data saturation in a study utilizing grounded theory (Aldiabat & Le Navenec, 2018). It may be that our study achieved data saturation with a relatively small sample due to the specific scope of our investigation and a greater homogeneity of participant responses compared with other studies (Aldiabat & Le Navenec, 2018, p. 254).
Heart rate and composite cardiac events: is there a strong association?
Published in Current Medical Research and Opinion, 2018
Abdalla Ibrahim, Thomas Kiernan
Different doses may be required for different patients, so there is no set magic number. It is also possible that there was more mortality in full dose users because they were determined to be at a greater risk of death and therefore received a higher dose. However, patients with a lower dose also benefit from a smaller number of adverse effects such as fatigue, decreased sexual drive and depression. Chen et al.1,8 only tested bisoprolol, one of many beta-blockers; others should also be evaluated. More studies should carefully monitor whether a high dosage of a beta-blocker continues to push the RHR down to standard safe numbers, instead of plateauing after 6 months. These studies also need to correlate that effect with the incidence of composite cardiac events in patients with CV disease.
Transitioning from hurting to healing: self-management after distal radius fracture
Published in Disability and Rehabilitation, 2022
Brocha Z. Stern, Janet Njelesani, Tsu-Hsin Howe
However, considering embodied understanding, Rebecca may have had no advantage over a layperson as she had not physically experienced a fracture previously. In fact, having more generic information without embodied understanding may have contributed to unrealistic expectations. For example, knowing 6 weeks as the “magic number in medicine,” she reported continued surprise and dissatisfaction with her recovery timeline despite being educated on expectations by her physician.