Clinical decision support resources can reduce the risk of medical error. As a result, we encourage doctors and other healthcare professionals to use clinical decision support (CDS) when making decisions. […]
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Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Desirable benefits and acceptable harms
Reading about the idea of a minimal clinically important difference (MCID), I came across another term, less widely used: the patient acceptable symptom state or PASS. The earliest reference to […]
Matt Morgan: Why you should #SqueezeTheSponge
As I come to the end of a busy run of shifts in the intensive care unit, I manage to get home in time to bath my children. My special […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Important differences
I have previously discussed the idea of a minimal clinically important difference (MCID), and in my last piece focused on the word “clinically”. I suggested that it implied activity at […]
Richard Smith: Using behavioural economics to improve healthcare and prevent doctor burnout
Since Daniel Kahneman’s magnificent book, Thinking Fast and Slow, made us think differently about ourselves—as Darwin and Freud had done before—we have become familiar with the ideas of flawed thinking, […]
Kieran Walsh: Could blockchain be applied to healthcare professional education?
Blockchain is “an open, public, distributed, and secure digital registry where information transactions are secured and have a clear origin, explicit pathways, and concrete value.” [1] It is a technology […]
Martin McKee: Waiting for Brexit
As we wait to find out what will happen next, the damage is being done […]
Kieran Walsh: Dementia—new approaches to care and cure
Dementia is a growing public health challenge around the world. It is already a major problem in developed countries, but incidence and prevalence are set to increase rapidly in developing […]
Matt Morgan: Hello from the other side
It’s that strangely timed phone call while you are at work. Too early in the day to be a simple hello, too late to be telling you that you have […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Clinical
Last week I discussed the idea of a minimal clinically important difference, introduced in the 1980s. It was later suggested that the term “clinically” should be omitted, implying as it […]