Letters to the Editor: Electronic prescribing in general practice

Research-agenda Bias: letters to the editor

Letters Letter to the Editor

The good name of TEX One of the many wonderful things about TEX is that its behaviour is essentially the same, no matter where it runs. TEX is a fixed point, identical on all machines. The same goes for METAFONT and the Computer Modern fonts. The author of TEX, Donald Knuth, has made it perfectly clear that he does not object to anyone revising TEX(or METAFONT) just as long as the resulting pro...

Letters Letters n Editor:

“Fronti Nulla Fides”: No reliance can be placed on appearance. In a letter to the editor (AI Mugazine, Winter 1989), Benjamin Kuipers criticizes various points made in an earlier paper of ours (Akman and ten Hagen 1989). First, a side (nonetheless important) remark: Although Kuipers asserts that he distributes QSIM to interested researchers, our experience has been otherwise. Akman has tried tw...

Adequacy of authors’ replies to criticism raised in electronic letters to the editor: cohort study

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether substantive criticism in electronic letters to the editor, defined as a problem that could invalidate the research or reduce its reliability, is adequately addressed by the authors. DESIGN Cohort study. SETTING BMJ between October 2005 and September 2007. Inclusion criteria Research papers generating substantive criticism in the rapid responses section on bm...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Paracetamol and asthma

The study by Shaheen et al rightly pointed out that some patients with asthma deliberately avoid aspirin and are more likely to use paracetamol, hence a “consumer selection bias”. However, they failed to mention the “professional’s selection bias”. Any standard textbooks or prescribing references state that aspirin and other non-steroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) could potentially worsen...