Making decisions about benefits and harms of medicines

Making decisions about benefits and harms of medicines.

Clare Harries medicines Making decisions about benefits and harms

Judging the benefits and harms of medicines.

How should society judge the safety and efficacy of drugs? This was the question posed by England’s chief medical officer, Sally Davies, in February 2015. Citing controversies about oseltamivir (Tamiflu) and statins, as well as growing disquiet about overmedication by doctors and conflicts of interest among researchers, she feared an erosion of public trust and asked the Academy of Medical Scie...

Making Decisions about Motion

There is often seen in the literature a disconnect between higher-level artificial intelligence and lower-level controls research. Too often, path planners do not account for the physical capabilities of the agents that will be following their paths. Similarly, the best controllers available need to be given trajectories from somewhere. This work presents a combined architecture that links a hi...

Impact on decisions to start or continue medicines of providing information to patients about possible benefits and/or harms: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

BACKGROUND The impact of providing information about medicines to patients on decisions about starting or continuing them is unknown. PURPOSE To estimate the impact on decisions to start or continue medicines, of providing information to patients about possible benefits and/or harms. DATA SOURCES Electronic searches from 1980 to October 2010; reference and citation searches of included stud...