Tag Archives: New England Journal of Medicine

Medical device companies fight back against damning results for spinal procedure

August 7, 2009 – 12:04 pm

Ray Moynihan wrote this Crikey piece about two new trials, published in the latest New England Journal of Medicine, that raise serious questions about the ongoing use of a controversial procedure called vertebroplasty, where bone cement is injected into a person’s vertebrae to try and fix painful spinal fractures.
Writing from Washington, health policy analyst Dr [...]

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Are Australian hospitals doing enough to prevent surgery-related deaths?

March 25, 2009 – 1:47 pm

Should Australian hospitals be required to implement the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist which has been shown to reduce post operative deaths and complications?
The UK National Patient Safety Agency has issued an alert requiring all healthcare organisations in England and Wales to implement the checklist (adapted for England and Wales) for every patient undergoing a surgical [...]

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