There but for the grace Goodman, Neville W
BMJ,
07/2001, Volume:
323, Issue:
7303
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Given the litany of large scale medical disasters over the last few years, and the introduction of clinical governance and clinical risk committees, it is far more likely that there are now fewer ...harmful incidents than before, even if the media slaver over the rapidly increasing number of complaints. Mr Milburn last week joined forces with the medical royal colleges in signing a seven-point pledge for quality and an end to the blame culture in the NHS.
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The number of autopsies is a worry in the United Kingdom too, but this is not because doctors are wary of them in case they reveal mistakes that lead to media exposure and litigation-it is because of ...the Alder Hey affair and the other events that led to the Human Tissue Bill, but these are not mentioned.
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The criteria for authorship of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, quoted in the instructions to authors in the BMJ, 1 are "substantial contributions to (a) conception and design, ...or analysis and interpretation of data; and to (b) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and on (c) final approval of the version to be published. Contribution Fulfilment of criteria for authorship Original idea for study Yes Design of study Yes Obtained grant No Head of department No Referred patients to study No Examined patients No Collected samples or specimens No Supervised collection of data Possibly Gave technical help with data No Analysed data Possibly Gave statistical help No Wrote first draft Yes Wrote later draft(s) Yes Gave technical help with presentation No Approved final draft Yes Twelve out of 14 questionnaires were returned.
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Whose drug is it anyway? Tramèr, Martin R; Reynolds, D John M; Goodman, Neville W
The Lancet (British edition),
10/2001, Volume:
358, Issue:
9289
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
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2 Weiss objected to an "overly optimistic" title beginning "Improved survival ..." from a pilot study using historical controls. 3 According to the popperian model, hypotheses cannot be proved but ...only supported or rejected, and then only to an arbitrary level of statistical significance. The BMJ is thus designed that most of the messages it contains can be extracted within 15 minutes-with subheadings in editorials, TWIBs, active verbs in news stories, boxes on what original studies add, summary boxes in review articles, and declarative titles in all letters.
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