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Confidence Intervals

From Evidence based confessions of a student nurse on 06 November 2009

It is well recognised that many students and qualified nurses alike struggle to get their heads around statistics.  Confidence intervals are essential to understanding nursing research, but can instil feelings of blind panic in the uninitiated.  Like so many technical concepts they are intimidating when you don’t understand them, but not so difficult once you more...

Julian Sheather: Should we help people self-harm?

From BMJ on 05 November 2009

Once in every while an ethical dilemma will swim across the horizon, a dilemma whose wake will induce in me a bout of moral seasickness. My compass spins, my bearings wheel and lurch. One such is the reappearance of “facilitated self-harm”. I am not over-fond of the word “facilitate”. It drips with the oil more...

When the Witch Asks a Question, I Can’t Resist

From Journal of Medical Ethics blog on 04 November 2009

In the replies to this thread, The Witch Doctor asks this: A Scenario: Apparently there are some sites on the web just now claiming that the world is going to end in 2012. Some teenagers are becoming agitated. I don’t want to be around when the world ends, so I’m going to drink some poison and present to more...

Botulism case in Scotland

From BMJ Case Reports blog on 04 November 2009

There are reports of a case of an infant with botulism in Scotland. “A 16-week-old baby boy is fighting for his life after being diagnosed with botulism. Logan Douglas was admitted to hospital in Edinburgh where doctors spotted signs of the rare disease and ordered a test. Health protection experts said there had not been a report of more...

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