Covid-19 has affected each and every one of us. This is what sets it apart from other recent crises: no region or country has been spared. In less than two years, it has infected more than 240 million people, and we have lost over five million lives to this virus. No one wants to see this happen again, but experts agree that this will likely not be the last pandemic.
Clinical prediction models use mathematical functions to combine information from an individual’s characteristics and use the resulting output to estimate the chances that a condition…
Clinical prediction models use mathematical functions to combine information from an individual’s characteristics and use the resulting output to estimate the chances that a condition…
Deaths of despair—from drug overdoses, alcoholic liver disease, and suicide—are now higher among black and Native Americans aged 45-54 since the trend was identified in…
Objective To train and test a super learner strategy for risk prediction of kidney failure and mortality in people with incident moderate to severe chronic…
As a way to mark our 10 year anniversary since launching our patient and public partnership strategy (https://www.bmj.com/campaign/patient-partnership) we are going to publish a patient…
Objective To estimate the association between oncologists’ receipt of payments from the pharmaceutical industry and delivery of non-recommended or low value interventions among their patients.…
In its 75th year, the NHS has never been in a deeper crisis, and although the problems may seem insoluble, we believe that the central…
Radiological errors will always happen, writes Giles Maskell. Acknowledging that is not the same as complacency I have been speaking to radiologists about error for…
Heart failure is increasing in prevalence in many countries with aging populations. Fortunately, remarkable scientific advances have been made in the past few years that…
Objective To determine whether a single low dose of esketamine administered after childbirth reduces postpartum depression in mothers with prenatal depression. Design Randomised, double blind,…
