Local case mix, primary care provision, geography don’t explain rates of less than 10% to 40+% Locally tailored strategies may reduce unnecessary admissions, suggest researchers Neither local case mix, primary care provision, nor geography explain the large differences in hospital admission rates, ranging from less than 10% to more than ...
We must be honest about the harm that is happening to patients, urges senior doctor The label “corridor care” is hiding the true scale of the NHS hospital crisis, warns a senior doctor in The BMJ today. Corridor care refers to the practice of providing care to patients in ...
Bulk summary reports often fail to promptly spot potential safety signals Improvements needed to safeguard patients and meet FDA standards Permitting medical device manufacturers to submit bulk summary reports of adverse events to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), rather than reporting individual cases, often fails to promptly ...
Investigation finds variant sharing is inconsistent, incomplete, and in some cases absent Experts and families say this could be prolonging uncertainty and delaying treatment Three out of England’s seven NHS genetics laboratories are failing to routinely share vital information about genetic variants in public databases that helps patients with ...
Investigation reignites questions about what steps were taken to safeguard public health from any unintended consequences of the vaccination rollout US health officials knowingly relied on a compromised algorithm to detect signals of harm from mRNA covid-19 vaccines and silenced efforts to fix it, finds an investigation published by ...
The BMJ reveals minimum waits of up to 16 weeks for hip, knee and cataract surgery Experts “concerned by the scale” of measures that can prolong patients’ pain Nearly half of health boards in England are deliberately delaying care for patients by imposing minimum waiting times in an attempt ...
Financial conflicts of interest still rife, despite new rules banning such links Public health experts say conflicts should be removed ‘immediately’ Nearly a third of the government’s nutrition advisors still have “significant” ties to the food industry including Coca Cola, Sainsbury’s, and Danone, reveals a new analysis by The ...
Due to lack of safety architecture to support envisaged digital transformation, warn experts The NHS 10 year Health Plan “risks propagating patient harm at an unprecedented scale” due to the lack of appropriate safety architecture to support the envisaged digital transformation, warn experts in an analysis published in the online ...
A paper-free NHS remains a distant reality, suggests BMJ analysis Twenty-five years after the government's first push to digitise the NHS, an investigation by The BMJ reveals that only about a fifth of hospital trusts in England are using fully electronic systems for clinical record-keeping. Responses to freedom of information (FOI) requests show that just 39 ...
They are largely college level readability, which isn’t recommended for patient content Communication quality may influence clinical outcomes, but dual purpose makes improvement challenging, say researchers Letters to patients from ophthalmology services—-the highest volume outpatient specialty in UK healthcare—include too much complex language and medical terminology which patients are likely ...
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