Common Errors Made in Analyzing Japanese Claims Databases and how to Avoid them

Statistical analysis and reporting: common errors found during peer review and how to avoid them.

When performing statistical peer review for Swiss Medical Weekly papers there often appear to be common errors or recurring themes regarding the reporting of study designs, statistical analysis methods, results and their interpretation. In order to help authors with choosing and describing the most appropriate analysis methods and reporting their results, we have created a guide to the most com...

Medication errors: what they are, how they happen, and how to avoid them.

A medication error is a failure in the treatment process that leads to, or has the potential to lead to, harm to the patient. Medication errors can occur in deciding which medicine and dosage regimen to use (prescribing faults--irrational, inappropriate, and ineffective prescribing, underprescribing, overprescribing); writing the prescription (prescription errors); manufacturing the formulation...

Monstrous births--and how to avoid them.

©FFPRHC J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2007: 33(3) Monstrous births History holds many references to ‘monstrous births’ as such a dramatic event would certainly be worth recording as extraordinary – a matter for personal letters, Church papers or even Court proceedings. The appearance of such a child was not always viewed with suspicion and fear but sometimes as a living message from God or, in...

Diagnostic errors in musculoskeletal ultrasound imaging and how to avoid them

The article reviews the major challenges related to the principles of the correct technique of musculoskeletal ultrasound (MSK US). All the crucial aspects of correct MSK soft tissue diagnosis have been discussed, including equipment settings, use of recent image software innovations and ultrasound standoff pads, and correct transducer positioning. The importance of the fundamental principles o...

Better look twice--medication errors in anaesthesia and how to avoid them.