“Research highlights” is a weekly round-up of research papers appearing in the print BMJ. We start off with this week’s research questions, before providing more detail on some individual research papers and accompanying articles. What are the comparative cardiovascular effects of rosiglitazone and pioglitazone in patients with type 2 diabetes in real world settings? Does […]
Tag: atrial fibrillation
Research highlights – 4 February 2011
“Research highlights” is a weekly round-up of research papers appearing in the print BMJ. We start off with this week’s research questions, before providing more detail on some individual research papers and accompanying articles How effective are two risk stratification schemes at predicting thromboembolic events in patients with atrial fibrillation? Is CPR with chest compression […]
Domhnall MacAuley on shared decision making
Democracy means involvement in decision making but it may not always lead to the best outcomes. With this simple analogy, Gerd Gigerenzer (Berlin), captured the potential hazards of clinical shared decision making in his keynote address to the 5th International Shared Decision Making Conference in Boston (June 14-17). […]