Published in the online journal BMJ Open, the study by Chiara Dall’Ora at the University of Southampton examined survey results from a sample of more than 31,000 nurses based across 12 countries in Europe. It found that shifts lasting longer than 12 hours were common in Poland (99%), Ire...
I would like to clarify that our paper, which was published in The BMJ ,1 is a new and completely different study from that published in a letter to the editor of the New England Journal of Medicine on 6 April 2016.2 The letter, which …...
The utilization rate for hip and knee replacements jumped in Massachusetts in the wake of its pioneering universal healthcare plan, enacted under former Gov. Mitt Romney in 2006, according to a recent study published in the British Medical Journal. Researchers compared the volume of hip and kn...
The study, conducted by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Veterans Affairs St. Louis Health Care System, also found that such risks increase with the duration of PPI use even when taken at low doses. For the study, researchers sifted through de-identified...
The second study, published in the same issue of the journal, found that 68% of adults worldwide (3.7 billion) are willing to get a COVID-19 shot. "Variations in the size of the target populations within and between regions emphasize the tenuous balance between vaccine...
Increasing consumption to above three cups a day was not associated with harm, but the beneficial effect was less pronounced, according to this study, which has been published in the journal The BMJ. The study also found that coffee drinking is associated with lower risk of some cancers, diabe...
In 2019 the Journal of Memory and Language instituted an open data and code policy; this policy requires that, as a rule, code and data be released at the latest upon publication. How effective is this policy? We compared 59 papers published before, and 59 papers published after, the polic...
In a recentblog post, two physicians say a studyrecently publishedinBMJthat concluded medical error is the third leading cause of death in the United States is "shoddy" science. The paper was widely reported May 3 in print, broadcast, and online media,including byMedscape Medical News. ...
Research Open access Published: 20 February 2025 Emerging trends and cross-country health inequalities in congenital birth defects: insights from the GBD 2021 studyHanjun Liu, Kebin Chen, Tingting Wang, Xiaorui Ruan, Jianhui Wei, Jiapeng Tang, Liuxuan Li & Jiabi Qin International Journal for ...
However, the study, which has been published in the journal The BMJ, is observational, so no firm conclusions can be drawn about cause and effect, and the researchers acknowledge several limitations, according to Cambridge.