Two weeks ago, police officials in Chicago, beset by use-of-force controversies, began sending all 12,500 of their sworn officers through mandatory, two-day de-escalation training.
Despite the widespread use of CRRT, controversy and center-specific practice variation in the clinical application of CRRT continue.
The author soberly and usefully teases out the various implications of terms such as "community", "integration" and "assimilation", and diagnoses well the fear-mongering use made of controversies over the Muslim veil or the Danish cartoons.
We used various topics of controversy in medicine and health care to demonstrate the relevance and the general principles of the method of EBM: Hormone therapy in (post-) menopausal women [ 29- 31] was used to exemplify the fallacies resulting from reliance on epidemiological studies and surrogate parameters rather than on evidence by high quality controlled trials and patient relevant outcomes.
The Stuff of Thought approaches the same topics, but less provocatively, asking what we can learn about human nature from the way we use language: a storm of controversy seems unlikely.
The number of executions in China has dropped from 15,000 in the 1990s to about 3,000 a year, but the rights of condemned prisoners, and how their bodies and organs are used, remain a source of controversy.
The 16th-century Latin translation, however, served to support the argument for the use of religious images in controversies involving certain Protestant iconoclasts.
In recent years, PAC use has become a subject of controversy.
Coutard became famous for shooting with a handheld camera and for his use of natural light, causing controversy in the profession at the time.
The use of fake weapons generated controversy.
