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Evidence Doesn’T Change Prescribing Patterns…So What Does?, Ali Rida, Anthony Brooks
Evidence Doesn’T Change Prescribing Patterns…So What Does?, Ali Rida, Anthony Brooks
Clinical Research in Practice: The Journal of Team Hippocrates
The authors write in support of critical analysis of clinical research, as a corrective to the physician's urge to "do something" even when no evidence of benefit exists.
Quality? Safety? Stop Being Naïve., Rana K. Zaban Do, Steven Istephan, Jonathan Serman Md
Quality? Safety? Stop Being Naïve., Rana K. Zaban Do, Steven Istephan, Jonathan Serman Md
Clinical Research in Practice: The Journal of Team Hippocrates
The first day of our inpatient medicine rotation, the Emergency Department (ED) admitted a patient to a general medical floor without notifying our rounding team. We used the institution’s system improvement tracking software to draw attention to communication breakdown in the interest of patient safety. This piece illustrates how there is a prominent hierarchy in medicine; it is inherent to the framework of the way in which hospitals function. A discussion ensues with our attending physician supervisor on our patient medicine service. During this discussion, we ponder whether it is possible to impact quality and safety from our position as …