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Over 1.2 million medical device side-effect reports not submitted within legal timeframe

Late adverse event reporting may prevent early detection of patient safety concerns, warn researchers Over 1.2 million medical device adverse event reports were not submitted to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) within the deadline set by federal regulations, finds an analysis of recent data published by The BMJ today. Of ...

2025-03-13T14:13:13+00:0013 March 2025|Press release, The BMJ|

No evidence that substituting NHS doctors with physician associates is necessarily safe

Evidence base on safety and effectiveness of physician associate and anaesthetic associate practice in the UK “sparse and of variable quality” Researchers say they can find no convincing evidence that physician associates add value in UK primary care or that anaesthetic associates add value in anaesthetics, and some evidence suggested ...

2025-03-07T15:16:24+00:007 March 2025|Press release, The BMJ|

Coaching trainees just before a procedure could improve patient safety

“Just-in-time” training could improve clinical outcomes, particularly among inexperienced clinicians, say researchers Giving inexperienced clinicians a quick coaching session with an expert just before they carry out a procedure boosts their success rate and could improve patient safety, finds a study in the Christmas issue of The BMJ. Athletes and musicians ...

2024-12-17T12:02:31+00:0017 December 2024|Press release, The BMJ|

Specific long term condition combinations have major role in NHS ‘winter pressures’

Cardiovascular disease, cancer, kidney disease, diabetes quartet linked to 11-fold higher hospital admission risk Kidney disease + cardiovascular disease + dementia + osteoarthritis linked to 24-fold higher death risk Specific combinations of long term conditions have a major role in the additional pressures the NHS faces every winter, because they ...

2025-01-22T11:43:25+00:0013 November 2024|BMJ Medicine, Press release|

Professional body continues to misinform on palliative medicine doctors’ stance on assisted dying

Association for Palliative Care Medicine’s strong opposing stance risks undermining confidence in palliative care, argue senior doctors  The Association for Palliative Care Medicine (APM) continues to misinform on palliative medicine doctors’ stance on assisted dying, warn a group of palliative medicine consultants in The BMJ today. Five years after first raising their ...

2024-10-31T09:33:11+00:0031 October 2024|Press release, The BMJ|
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