Richard Craig and Jonathan L Rees Part of a clinician’s duty of care is to provide patients with information on “the benefits, risks, burdens, and likelihood of success” when offering […]
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Heart failure is not the immediate death sentence that the term implies, but we need to do a lot better
Heart failure is an unfortunate, and inaccurate, term with bleak connotations. After being told he had a diagnosis of heart failure, one of my patients thought his heart was going […]
Henry Kitchener: Primary cervical screening with human papillomavirus testing
According to our latest research paper, screening for high risk human papillomavirus (HR-HPV) infection is more sensitive than cytology testing. Together with prophylactic HPV vaccination this provides a compelling rationale […]
Global suicide mortality: Using data to inform action and monitor progress
Mohsen Naghavi and Heather Orpana According to the World Health Organization (WHO), approximately 800,000 people globally die by suicide each year. The WHO’s Comprehensive Mental Health Action Plan includes a […]
Katie Walker and Michael Ben-Meir: It’s time to think hard about how clinicians work in a digital age
Patients and doctors would both like more access to each other and scribes can enable this, say Katie Walker and Michael Ben-Meir […]
The challenges of developing healthcare quality measures based on ICD-10-CM Codes
Inappropriate outpatient antibiotic prescribing is a primary driver of antimicrobial resistance. Designing and evaluating antibiotic stewardship initiatives requires common measures of inappropriate prescribing that can be applied at the level […]
David Melzer: Haemochromatosis is linked to more disease than previously thought
The long story of this research paper probably starts with my wife’s grandfather, Owen Tracy. He was a submariner in the First World War and was fit enough to climb […]
Surgeons should know when not to operate
Yassine Ochen, Marilyn Heng, Rolf H.H. Groenwold, R. Marijn Houwert A BMJ editorial from 1999 stated: “Good surgeons know how to operate, better ones when to operate, and the best […]
We jumped from planes without parachutes (and lived to tell the tale)
“Would you be willing to jump out of this plane without a parachute?” For the last year we’ve posed this question, mid-flight, to dozens of unsuspecting travellers seated on […]
Everyday living as inspiration for weight control research
Daily living is a rich source of inspiration for scientists specialising in weight management, and our interest in restaurants began with a simple problem—what to eat for lunch when trying […]