Tag Archives: health care

Should health care join up with retail therapy?

September 17, 2009 – 9:00 am

Dr Lesley Russell, an Australian working in Washington, has been looking at new research conducted in the US on the merits of retail outlets as sites for health clinics. You can just imagine what the AMA might have to say about this.
Russell writes:
“A study released in the US this month is sure to provoke a [...]

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A note to Rudd re evidence-based healthcare

August 19, 2009 – 10:52 am

The PM made a big deal about the need to ensure treatments are evaluated and backed by good evidence in this widely-reported speech at St Vincent’s Institute for Medical Research in Melbourne last Friday.

He said: “ Patients need treatments, technologies, and procedures for which there is evidence from research that these are safe and effective. [...]

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Health safety chief offers media some lessons

January 28, 2009 – 8:37 pm

Professor Chris Baggoley, Chief Executive of the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, sent this email in response to my recent post about the complexity of factors which contribute to errors in the media and health care industries:
Hello Melissa
While acknowledging that the consequences of actual harm arising from an opinion piece in [...]

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The media and healthcare: sharing our mistakes

January 27, 2009 – 3:12 pm

In a recent Crikey article, journalist Margaret Simons investigated how The Age newspaper came to publish a column “in error”.
Reading about the many factors and circumstances – both systemic and individual – that contributed to the error – I was again reminded of how the media and health industries have so much in common, at [...]

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