I attended the annual convention of the German Society of Internal Medicine DGIM (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Innere Medizin) in Mannheim this week. The main focus of this congress is transferring […]
Month: April 2016
Meena Putturaj: The art of data collection in health systems research
Data collection is a crucial aspect of any research project. Depending on the nature and scope of the research question, collecting quality data requires considerable investment of time and resources. […]
Robert A Watson: Challenges and opportunities for emergency general surgery
Emergency general surgery (EGS) in England is facing a number of challenges, including workforce, training, and operational issues. Together these have led to wide national variation in outcomes. For example, […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—11 April 2016
NEJM 7 April 2016 Vol 374 Prebirth steroids and baby lungs 1311 Most of you will be familiar with the logo of the Cochrane Collaboration, consisting of a blue circle […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Mechanisms
Invited last week to the MuST9 philosophy conference—Evidence, Inference, and Risk, in the Center for Mathematical Philosophy in Munich’s Ludwig Maximilians Universität, the ninth in a series held in turn […]
Xiaoning Zhang: The two child policy in China
For the past thirty seven years the Chinese government has carried out a strict one child policy. In 2015 the policy was phased out, and a two child policy was […]
Richard Smith: Medicine’s need for philosophy
The commonest undergraduate degree of students entering the medical school at University of California Irvine is philosophy. The medical school, traditionally the richest and most arrogant of university departments, has […]
Are safety measures really the answer to spiralling clinical negligence costs?
Aviation, rail, and oil and gas industries pride themselves, for good reason, on their safety records and associated culture. And a logical extension of the success of those industries is […]
Soumyadeep Bhaumik’s review of South Asian medical papers—April 2016
Despite the enormous diversity that South Asia encompasses, it has its fair share of common problems in which there is a need for greater co-operation and learning. A key issue […]
Claudia Pagliari et al: Smartening-up NHS workforce management with IT
Media revelations of dramatic unexpected shortages in NHS nursing capacity, excessive dependence on overseas recruitment and costly agency staff (often NHS workers doing private shifts) are contributing to the public perception […]