Undue emphasis on risk may increase stigma

Undue risk: secret state experiments on humans

informative book Medizin im Nationalsozialismus. Ein Arbeitsbuch in 1980, when the subsequent years saw him being driven out of the profession and into private scholarship. Not surprisingly, despite its bold title, Medizin und Verbrechen is not really about medicine and crimes in general, but on the peculiar entanglement of the two during the years of National Socialism. It is not a Festschrift...

Undue reliance on I2 in assessing heterogeneity may mislead

BACKGROUND The heterogeneity statistic I(2), interpreted as the percentage of variability due to heterogeneity between studies rather than sampling error, depends on precision, that is, the size of the studies included. METHODS Based on a real meta-analysis, we simulate artificially 'inflating' the sample size under the random effects model. For a given inflation factor M = 1, 2, 3,... and fo...

Implementing New Regulation Promotes Health but May Increase Inequality

Cocaine may Increase Risk for Cognitive Problems in HIV

Why Your EHR May Increase Malpractice Liability Risk

One of his key recommendations is to conduct your own EHR selection process. In other words, don’t choose the EHR a hospital or larger health system is pressuring you to select, choose the EHR that is best for your practice and your patients. “The theme is that you’ve got to basically go toe-to-toe with these guys and say, ‘I’ve got to protect the integrity of the clinical content ...,’” said S...