For women who are facing difficult decisions because they carry a gene that heightens their risk of breast cancer, doctors have developed a bracingly rational, cut-to-the chase method of helping them weigh the pros and cons of various strategies for reducing risk.
There is no way to bring the deficit under control without making substantial and rational cuts in that budget.
Washington's need to deal with the long-term deficit can be met only with a combination of new revenues and rational cuts, not extortion.
The sequester-level budget contains cuts to domestic spending so severe that they were supposed to terrify Democrats into negotiating other, more rational cuts; it also contains cuts to defence so severe that they were supposed to terrify Republicans into agreeing to some form of modest tax hikes.
By comparing antibiotic susceptibility between different days after hospital admission, the most rational cut-off in days for early- and late-onset VAP and, consequently, antibiotic change can be identified.
Then it's on to the Kantian sublime: stretching a point rather, Smith discovers Kant's description of the vertiginous apprehension of forces that dwarf reason in your first frenchie: "kissing becomes silence, rational speech cut off, causing us literally to be dumbstruck".
An international group representing multiple obstetrical and diabetes organizations, including ADA, is currently working on consensus toward 1) a world-wide standard for which diagnostic test to use for GDM and 2) rational diagnostic cut points.
The BBC is out of control, was the motion proposed by the Guardian's Emily Bell and independent producer Peter Bazalgette in a session devised by Carlton programme head, Steve Hewlett whose rational ability to cut through the BBC's problems led more than one to wonder why Dyke doesn't replace his strategy department with one man.
The rationale then, and it applies just as much to the case of the ICCPR, is that the Statute was undermining the clear cut rational of binding treaties whereby only the countries that had ratified any treaty would be beholden to it.
Monitoring antibiotic use with microbiology laboratory support can promote rational drug utilization, cut costs, halt inappropriate 3GC prescribing, and delay the emergence of resistant organisms.
To do so, they use two short cuts: rational ways to gather quickly the best evidence on solutions to meet their goals; and irrational ways - including drawing on emotions and gut feeling - to identify problems even more quickly.
