Do patients need to read research?

Do patients need to read research?

RESEARCH Most patients wouldn't dream of reading medical research. They probably imagine it to be arcane, mystical material full of numbers, formulas and Greek symbols. They aren't far wrong, but it is possible to get to grips with medical research without being as clever as Wittgenstein. If it's any comfort, most doctors don't read or understand medical research either—but they can be trained ...

Do Antibiotic Beads Need to be Removed?

Background: Polymethylmethacrylate antibiotic impregnated beads can be an effective treatment for chronicosteomyelitis or an adjuvant in the treatment of open fractures. It remains unclear however whether the beads causelong-term adverse events if not removed. The purpose of this study was to determine if removal of antibiotic beads wasrequired in order to avoid long term comp...

Credibility Assessment in the News: Do we need to read?

While news media biases and propaganda are a persistent problem for interpreting the true state of world affairs, increasing reliance on the internet as a primary news source has enabled the formation of hyper-partisan echo chambers and an industry where outlets benefit from purveying “fake news”. The presence of intentionally adversarial news sources challenges linguistic modeling of news arti...

Do Indian Researchers Read Indian Research?

It is the authors' experience that papers in the Indian Journal of Psychiatry (IJP) under-reference relevant research previously published in the journal. To empirically address this issue, four volumes of the IJP, from 1989 to 1992 (both years inclusive), were surveyed. It was found that of 292 articles examined, 133 articles (45.5%) had neglected to cite relevant articles previously published...

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