Donor cornea tissue in cases of drowning or water submersion: eye banks practice patterns and tissue outcomes.

Surgical use of donor corneal tissue from victims of water submersion (drowning or submersion secondary to death) remains controversial due to limited evidence about the quality of these tissues. To assess the safety of donor corneal tissue from victims of water submersion, an investigation of eye banks' practice patterns and tissue outcomes was conducted. All 79 Eye Bank Association of America accredited eye banks were contacted for a phone interview of practices regarding tissue from victims of water submersion.

Precision of Epithelial Defect Measurements.

Purpose: To ensure optimal care of patients, cornea specialists measure corneal features, including epithelial defects (ED), with slit-lamp calipers. However, caliper measurements are subject to interphysician variability. We examined the extent of variability in ED measurements between cornea specialists and discuss the potential clinical impact.

Trends in the Care of Diabetic Macular Edema: Analysis of a National Cohort.

Purpose: To evaluate how the monitoring and treatment for diabetic macular edema (DME) has changed in a national sample.

Design: Retrospective cohort study.

Setting: Administrative medical claims data from a large, national U.

Has there been any progress in improving the quality of hospitalised death? Replication of a US chart audit study.

Objective: To describe the experience of dying in a US tertiary academic medical centre and to compare this experience with a historical decedent sample.

Design: A retrospective, observational, chart audit study of adults (N=159) who died in hospital.

Setting: Component hospitals of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center: Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital (MHMH), Lebanon, New Hampshire, and the affiliated Veteran's Affairs Medical Center (VAMC), White River Junction, Vermont.

Economic principles motivating social attention in humans.

We know little about the processes by which we evaluate the opportunity to look at another person. We propose that behavioural economics provides a powerful approach to understanding this basic aspect of social attention. We hypothesized that the decision process culminating in attention to another person follows the same economic principles that govern choices about rewards such as food, drinks and money.