NICE should value real experiences over hypothetical opinions

NICE work: how NICE decides what we should pay for.

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) is responsible for providing guidance on the promotion of good health and the prevention and treatment of ill health in the UK. Fundamental to the decision-making process is the need to make recommendations based on the best available evidence with input from all stakeholders in a transparent and collaborative manner. 1 Health tec...

Fairness Opinions : Are They Fair or Should

The Presence of Real Food Usurps Hypothetical Health Value Judgment in Overweight People123

To develop more ecologically valid models of the neurobiology of obesity, it is critical to determine how the neural processes involved in food-related decision-making translate into real-world eating behaviors. We examined the relationship between goal-directed valuations of food images in the MRI scanner and food consumption at a subsequent ad libitum buffet meal. We observed that 23 lean and...

Switching thienopyridines: hypothetical versus real risks.

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BMJ David Colquhoun alternative medicines ? Should NICE evaluate complementary

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