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Freer and Lyon ask whether the safety alerts and recommendations that can follow the identification of adverse events can effectively exchange one uncertain risk for another. They illustrate this with a survey of the response to an alert about best practice for confirming nasogastric tube position. An accompanying perspective from Vincent and colleagues outlines the difficulty faced by the National Patient Safety Agency in striking a balance between evidence and action and raises the issue of variability in practice as a threat to patient safety.
See pages F314 and F327
Depending on whether your cup is half full or half empty, the routine ventilation from birth of infants of 28 weeks gestation or less is equally effective or equally harmful whether you use high frequency oscillatory ventilation or conventional ventilation. Marlow and colleagues report the respiratory and neurological outcomes at 2 years of the 585 surviving infants enrolled in a
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