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Archive for March, 2008

21 Mar

Medical abbreviations ‘pose risk’

I saw this page on the BBC Health page.  It suggests that the use of abbreviations should be potentially phased out as it has contributed to 5% of errors in an American study, some of which were fatal.  An example quoted in the article concerns the dose of insulin given to a patient.  The notes [...]

04 Mar

Tags

I have been having a re-think about this site.  I’m not too sure what direction I want it to go in at the moment but I will be making slight improvements over time whilst thinking about the future.  One change will be my use of tags on enteries so people can look at related articles.

04 Mar

NHS waiting times up

BBC Health are reporting that waiting times under labour are up.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7271772.stm

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