Patients need to be informed about the evidence
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Patients need to be informed about the evidence.
I agree that regulators and industry have to improve the regulation of medical devices, but Godlee implies that this will increase the evidence on effectiveness and safety and will lead to improved safety for patients. Even if evidence on safety were available, there is a gap between knowing and informing or doing. Patients would still need to be informed by their clinicians to decide whether t...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.e2129