Hi-tech features in 150th CMO report
The chief medical officer’s annual report has highlighted the need for surgeons to be trained using simulation techniques. The report, published by Professor Sir Liam Donaldson yesterday, devotes a chapter to simulation and says that surgeons trained using simulation methods make fewer errors and carry out technically more exact procedures. However, it says that although […]
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Decision support helps cut antibiotic over-use
Clinical decision support can help to reduce the inappropriate prescription of antibiotics in primary care, according to a US study. Over-prescription of antibiotics – often for viral respiratory tract infections – fosters the spread of resistant organisms such as MRSA. The researchers, writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association, say they were prompted to […]
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Record hazards
Dr Glyn Hayes, Chair of the Health Informatics Forum at the British Computer Society, argues that electronic patient records can result in all-too-human pitfalls.
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