You may not have noticed, but there was a subtle shift in Britain’s food a couple of years ago. After many years of campaigning, most notably on the telly by bucolic chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall but also by such animal welfare luminaries as PETA and Compassion in World Farming, the UK finally got rid of battery […]
Category: guest post
StatsMiniBlog: Z scores.
A recent journal club article, the exact nature of which is irrelevant, triggered a coffee-room discussion on the subject of z scores, which although often understood in relation to Bone Mineral Density reports are otherwise a statistical challenge. In particular the difficulties in interpreting them in a meaningful way were lamented by our team. […]
What’s in a name?
A guest post from @tweediatrics. Last week, a discussion surfaced on Twitter regarding the use of “affectionate” names with patients. It started from this, tweeted by an A+E consultant in the UK: “Colleague disciplined for calling a 90 yr old lady ‘my dear’ & ‘darling’. She had no issues with them. Are we being too PC? […]
Guest Blog. Safeguarding (and) Children’s Rights
This January sees the UK submitting its fifth periodic report to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child outlining the progress over the last 5 years the UK has made in meeting its obligations to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). The UNCRC is an excellent piece of child […]
Guest Post. Positive feedback
It seems almost every day that a negative healthcare story makes its way into the headlines; missed diagnoses; missed opportunities; repeated failings that suggest a lack of learning from previous serious incidents. While the issues raised by these stories may be significant, the articles rarely present a balanced account. The distorted information is presented for […]
Guest Blog: The end of systematic reviews?
So the titles intentionally provocative and NOT the brainchild of the post’s author (@JRBTrip of @TRIPdatabase) … but Jon has provided us at the Archives with a paediatric-orientated version of the new TRIP rapid-review system. Read on to find out more, and comment / tweet us your thoughts … Bob Phillips for @ADC_BMJ Trip Rapid […]
Guest Blog: Depression in paediatric chronic fatigue syndrome
In the next of our guest blog posts, paediatric mental health expert @MaxDavie has leapt into a discussion of one of the Archive’s recent editors choice articles, “Depression in paediatric chronic fatigue syndrome“. While I don’t have a huge feel for the CFS/ME market, being largely responsible for anthracyline induced cardiotoxicity and ifosphamide tubulopathies, I […]
Guest Post: Ten pitfalls of small group teaching
A guest blog post from Nadine McCrea Recently I had the pleasure of facilitating an evening seminar on small group teaching. We had a lot of fun, spending most of the time having discussions and undertaking tasks in a variety of bizarrely named set-ups (snowballing anyone?). We identified that small group teaching provides huge […]