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Intolerance of error and culture of blame drive medical excess
Jerome R Hoffman and Hemal K Kanzaria argue that efforts to reduce overdiagnosis and overtreatment should focus on changing professional and public attitudes towards medical error and uncertainty
bmj.com
over 6 years ago

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Label design may affect risk of medication errors in OR, reports Journal of Patient Safety
Redesigned labels reduce the number of errors in simulated surgical emergency, study findsSpecial redesigned labels for intravenous (IV) medication bags may help to...
medicalnewstoday.com
almost 6 years ago

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Avoiding Resuscitation Medication Errors - Part I
I am joined by Bryan Hayes to discuss the avoidance of critical medication errors during resuscitations.
emcrit.org
almost 6 years ago

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CPS kidnaps teen after heart attack, misdiagnoses mother with Munchausen by proxy
CPS kidnaps teen after heart attack, misdiagnoses mother with Munchausen by proxy
naturalnews.com
almost 6 years ago

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Medical Statistics and Medical Errors, Part I
The field of medical statistics is poorly understood by many doctors and by most patients. An article in the New England Journal of Medicine that surveyed over 100 articles published in reputable medical journals stated that over 50% of them used medical statistics incorrectly, and furthermore stated that this misuse invalidated the clinical conclusions of many of these articles. In this blog I will not discuss esoterica such as when to use a two-tailed t-test rather than a one-tailed test, or the uses and misuses of the Cox regression analysis. Instead I will try to point out fallacies in reasoning and statistics that should cause you to doubt a result quoted in the journal or in the newspapers.
ghthomas.blogspot.co.uk
over 5 years ago