Posted in Diabetes, Editor, RISKS, bmj, chronic disease, health, life, news on April 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
BMJ, doi:10.1136/bmj.39538.469421.80 (published 17 April 2008)
Editorials
By: Martin Gulliford, professor of public health, Department of Public Health Sciences, London
Self monitoring – whether intensive or not – is unlikely to be cost effective if added to standardised usual care and initially reduces quality of life.
Self monitoring also had no effect over one year on:
HbA1c,
body mass index,
use of [...]
Posted in Editor, Politics, Practice, RISKS, bmj, health, life, news on April 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
BMJ 2008;336:841-842 (19 April).
Editorials
By: Paul Kinnersley, reader, Adrian Edwards, professor, Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Cardiff University.
Complaints against doctors:
Could be reduced by identifying and remedying poor communication skills early on.
Clinical communication skills are at the heart of medical practice, and poor performance is an important factor in the origins of complaints [...]
Posted in Clinical review, Editor, bmj, health on April 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
BMJ 2008;336:416-417 (23 February).
As calls to end drug companies’ direct sponsorship of doctors’ education echo round the world, an investigation in Australia reveals sponsor involvement in the education of thousands of general practitioners, writes Ray Moynihan, conjoint lecturer, University of Newcastle, New South Wales, and visiting editor, BMJ
Harvard professor David Blumenthal, an internationally [...]
