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Presumed safe no more: lessons from the Wingspan saga on regulation of devices
Despite an RCT showing clear safety concerns with the Wingspan intracranial stent system, the device remains on the market. Ari J Gartenberg and colleagues argue that the exemption system used to...
View ArticleWithdrawing performance indicators: retrospective analysis of general...
The removal of financial incentives for certain aspects of care seems to have had a very small effect on quality of care, even over the long term, say the authors of this retrospective longitudinal...
View ArticleThe NHS’s care.data scheme: what are the risks to privacy?
Extraction of data from patients’ medical records to create a new national database in England will begin next month. Jon Hoeksma explains what you need to know.
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