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Stephen Ginn: NHS Summary Care Record
People living in London and four other strategic health authorities are currently receiving information in the post about the rollout of the NHS Summary Care Record (SCR) system. SCR is […]
Behrooz Astaneh on a scientific embargo
A recent email from a friend of mine triggered me to write a post on the WAME forum about a relatively old scientific embargo issue. Some days ago one of my friends […]
Jon Brassey on the TRIP database
Searching for clinical information isn’t easy, I know, I’ve been doing it on an almost daily basis for over ten years. I’d like to think that I’m pretty good at […]
Harvey Marcovitch on publication-to-knowledge time – far too long
Theresa Harding’s long and tedious journey through increasing disability to a diagnosis of a treatable condition is a very moving one. Many readers will be as concerned as the BMJ […]
The COMET initiative
Systematic reviews of randomised trials are hampered by inconsistency in the patient outcomes assessed across the different studies. Many meta-analyses have to leave out key studies because the relevant outcomes […]
Joe Collier on: When does “1+1+1 = 1” become “1+1+1 = 3?”
A key component of medicine is the diagnosis. The principle process we use for reaching a diagnosis is to identify the patient’s signs and symptoms and then look for a […]
K M Venkat Narayan: A case of well-intentioned public health reductionism?
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) recently released its elegantly titled report, “A Population-Based Policy and Systems Change Approach to Prevent and Control Hypertension” (Washington, DC. National Academies Press, 2010). […]
Emily Spry has a new role model
Over the past month or so, things have been changing fast at the children’s hospital, thanks to my new hero, Professor Tamra Abiodun. […]
Martin McShane: Pathways don’t fit
The buzz word of late has been “pathways.” I guess that has been brought about by Michael Porter and Elizabeth Teisberg’s article in the Harvard Business Review and their book […]