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• A JAMA briefing on comparative effectiveness and helicopters that allows time for questions

  
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  The Journal of the American Medical Association held a media briefing on its Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) theme issue. The event took place in the National Press Club. A doctor, upon entering that building, might do a double-take waiting for the elevator, curious that the journalists occupy the 13 th ...
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• Emergency Medicine Update May 2012

  
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  Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog Emergency Medicine Update May 2012 Here’s an overview of this May’s EMU in a highly abbreviated, but still informative form – so you know what to look for. Editor’s note: You’ll need to read the full update for all the analysis, criticisms, debates and (of course) ...
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• Using Evidence and Evaluation to Govern

  
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  Originally published on The IBM Business of Government by John M Kamensky OMB released new guidance supporting the use of evidence and evaluation in making budget trade-off decisions.  The guidance reflects a high degree of sophistication on how to do this in a budget-constrained environment. The Office of ...
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• A Rough Guide to Evidence-Based Medicine

  
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  On the unimpressiveness of personal anecdotes and the usefulness of clinical evidence.
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• Emergency Medicine Australasia

  
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  Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog Emergency Medicine Australasia Life in the Fast Lane has it’s roots firmly in Australia – despite having a Welshman and a Kiwi at the helm! As such…this year we have been collating short editorial reviews from our local journal – Emergency Medicine Australasia ...
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• EMA February 2012

  
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  Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog EMA February 2012 Short editorial snippets from  Vol. 24 Issue 1  of Emergency Medicine Australasia published online on 9 February 2012. CT Pan-scan Asha and colleagues from the University of New South Wales report on a large cohort study comparing radiation exposure ...
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• Lifestyle factors in multiple sclerosis

  
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  Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog Lifestyle factors in multiple sclerosis Recently I wrote about research performed into changing the paradigm of progressive deterioration in multiple sclerosis (MS). The article was based on an Australian longitudinal cohort study which reported remarkable improvements with ...
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• Ioannidis: “We need to move away from…big promises. Very little of what we do will be so lucky as to break new ground.”

  
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  Photo by Bill Branson from The NIH Record In the most recent issue of The NIH Record , which is the biweekly newsletter for employees of the National Institutes of Health, there’s an article about Dr. John Ioannidis , director of the Stanford Prevention Research Center, and someone whose work I’ve recommended ...
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• Can Guidelines Harm Patients?

  
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  Recently I saw an intriguing “personal view” in the BMJ written by Grant Hutchison entitled: “Can Guidelines Harm Patients Too?” Hutchison is a consultant anesthetist with -as he calls it- chronic guideline fatigue syndrome. Hutchison underwent an acute exacerbation of his “condition” with the arrival ...
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• Offitt on the offense against National Center for Complementary & Alternative Medicine budget

  
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  The Los Angeles Times wrote about an essay in this week’s Journal of the American Medical Association, stating: As if Dr. Paul Offit hasn’t made enough enemies  already by insisting (correctly) that parents put their kids’ health at risk when they refuse to get them vaccinated, now the infectious disease ...
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• Characteristics of Clinical Trials Registered in ClinicalTrials.gov, 2007-2010 [Original Contribution]

  
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  Context Recent reports highlight gaps between guidelines-based treatment recommendations and evidence from clinical trials that supports those recommendations. Strengthened reporting requirements for studies registered with ClinicalTrials.gov enable a comprehensive evaluation of the national trials portfolio. ...
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• Studying Complementary and Alternative Therapies [Viewpoint]

  
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• Aspirin for cancer prevention not ready for prime time

  
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  Lets imagine that we had a hunch that lighting incense at midnight contributes to weight loss, and we wanted to test that hunch. How would we do that? We would recruit lots of overweight adults and (with their permission) randomly assign them into two groups. The first group would receive a wake-up call every night at ...
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• Doctors Drive Transportation Fleet Workers Comp Claim Costs

  
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  By Karen Wolfe, BSN. MA, MBA President, CEO MedMetrics, LLC Our recently published article, “Survey: Employers Want WC Cost Control. Really?”, generated this response from a reader.     “The biggest problem I have is finding the right doctors. If all of my employees were in one location, ...
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• Consensus Statement: Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention of Ankle Sprains: an Evidence-Based Clinical Guideline

  
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  Consensus Statement: Diagnosis, treatment and prevention of ankle sprains: an evidence-based clinical guideline. Kerkhoffs GM, van den Bekerom M, Elders LAM, van Beek PA, Hullegie WAM, Bloemers G, de Heus EM, Loogman M, Rosenbrand K, Kuipers T, Hoogstraten J, Dekker R, ten Duis H, van Dijk CN, van Tulder MW, van der ...
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