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Study reveals sharp increase in global incidents of healthcare-related harm
The proportion of patient harms associated with medical procedures, treatment, and contact with healthcare systems rose by 59 ...
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BMJ should retract flawed research paper on chronic fatigue syndrome
BMJ has been a leading voice for the effort to ... After a year and a half, the journal finally reissued the paper in July 2019 with an extensive correction along with a reiteration of the ...
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Training bottlenecks and unemployment—bad for doctors, patients, and the public purse
Competition for postgraduate medical specialty training posts is causing widespread despair and anger among the UK’s resident ...
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Risks of shoulder replacement surgery higher than previously thought
population based cohort study using hospital episode statistics for England, BMJ (2019). DOI: 10.1136/bmj.l298 ...
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Which treatment is most effective for patients with Achilles tendinopathy? A living systematic review with network meta-analysis of 29 randomised controlled trials
Design Living systematic review and network meta-analysis. Data sources Multiple databases including grey literature sources were searched up to February 2019. Study eligibility criteria Randomised ...
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Medical scribes could help doctors care for more patients
More information: Scribes in Emergency Medicine: a multi-centre, randomised trial evaluating the impact of scribes on emergency doctor productivity and patient throughput, BMJ (2019). DOI ...
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International Olympic Committee consensus statement: methods for recording and reporting of epidemiological data on injury and illness in sport 2020 (including STROBE Extension ...
The procedure included an open online survey, several stages of text drafting and consultation by working groups and a 3-day consensus meeting in October 2019. This statement includes recommendations ...