Patient Safety

Guidance on developing quality and safety strategies with a health system approach
World Health Organization Europe
2008
This guidance addresses senior health policy makers, advisers and quality leaders. It aims to give independent and research based guidance for developing national quality and safety strategies suited to local circumstances. Click here for more.

Doctors’ versus patients’ global assessments of treatment effectiveness: empirical survey of diverse treatments in clinical trials
E Evangelou, G Tsianos, JPA Ioannidis
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Leaping to conclusions: clinical trials are sometimes stopped prematurely if they show early benefit. But this might pose a risk to patients.
M McCartney
British Medical Journal, 2008, 336(7655), pp1213-1214
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