Rethinking Secure Electronic Sign out (Hand off or Changeover)

secure electronic hand off or sign out

A pubmed search for electronic sign out (or hand off) yields 42 results.  I wrote recently about secure patient health information and have been thinking more about what it takes to have a secure, physician-to-physician electronic sign out system.  To Continue reading Rethinking Secure Electronic Sign out (Hand off or Changeover)

End of the Double-Blind Randomized Control Trial?

Pleasance et al.  Nature 463, 184-190 (14 January 2010).

The short answer is probably not – the randomized control trial is safe for now.  The longer answer when it comes to exploring molecular targets in oncology we may need to rethink the double-blind randomized control trial. Since current methods Continue reading End of the Double-Blind Randomized Control Trial?