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Inside Health 14/7/15 | Margaret McCartney's Blog
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Margaret McCartney's Blog. Http:/ bma.org.uk/working-for-change/improving-and-protecting-health/food-for-thought. Big Lancet series on obesity. Http:/ www.thelancet.com/series/obesity-2015. Evidence on smoking legislation. Https:/ www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment data/file/216319/dh 124959.pdf. Http:/ www.ifs.org.uk/wps/wp201313.pdf. Https:/ www.iser.essex.ac.uk/research/publications/522422. Http:/ oem.bmj.com/content/early/2009/02/10/oem.2008.040311.abstract. Https:/ www.gov&#...
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Thermometers | Margaret McCartney's Blog
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Margaret McCartney's Blog. NICE fever in children (under 5s) recommendations. Http:/ www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg160/chapter/1-recommendations. Gut instinct in clinicians. Http:/ www.bmj.com/content/345/bmj.e6144. June 28, 2015. View all posts by margaretadmin →. Knee arthroscopy – Inside Health 21/7/15. Low carb diets →. Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email. Inside Health 9/8/16. Zika, statins, asthma trial.
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RCGP council 20/6/15 | Margaret McCartney's Blog
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Margaret McCartney's Blog. 8211; I spoke against credentialing – where it the evidence of effectiveness, and what are we not doing instead when we are doing the paperwork for it. 8211; Supported John Cosgrove’s excellent #openRGCP paper, which means that all council papers will be open access unless there is good reason not to be. This was widely agreed upon. June 21, 2015. View all posts by margaretadmin →. Wild swimming – Inside Health 9/6/15. 7 day working – Inside Health 23/7/15 →.
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Margaret McCartney's Blog. Making guidelines work for patients. Paper in the BMJ, co-authored by members of the RCGP overdiagnosis group free link. Continue Reading →. May 19, 2016. HEALTH CHECKS the NHS Health Check programme is being implemented in the absence of direct randomised controlled trial evidence to guide it – Public Health England BJGP editorial http:/ bjgp.org/content/64/627/493 BMJ OPEN January 16 http:/ bmjopen.bmj.com/content/6/1/e008840.full BMJ review of public he...March 29, 2016.
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Low carb diets | Margaret McCartney's Blog
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Margaret McCartney's Blog. Http:/ annals.org/article.aspx? Articleid=1900694 – RCT of low carb (well 40gs, ) vs low fat (well, 30% calories) above. the important bit: people cut down calories in both groups, but didn’t match the diet at 12m compared with 3m. Http:/ linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0140-6736(87)92797-8. Http:/ www.atherosclerosis-journal.com/article/S0021-9150(02)00364-7/abstract. Http:/ jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx? 8220;Significant weight loss was observed with any low-carbohy...
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Who’s the expert? | Margaret McCartney's Blog
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Margaret McCartney's Blog. Who’s the expert? Following on from twitter discussion. Often, this is not just a 10 minute appointment. More often, it’s a relationship over time. So a decision might, on reflection, change; more information might be later gathered; further issues might appear to be explored or ignored. I am on my patients’ side. Whose else could I be on? The rise of the ‘expert’ patient changes this. But when I read the text of the ‘ expert patient. Puts it very well. More than ever, we need ...
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Wild swimming – Inside Health 9/6/15 | Margaret McCartney's Blog
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Margaret McCartney's Blog. Wild swimming – Inside Health 9/6/15. And thanks to Kings Cross Pon. Great review article – co authored by Michael Tipton who is on the programme discussing cold water swimming. Http:/ www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4052348/. And a great website. Http:/ www.outdoorswimmingsociety.com/swimming tips/cold water. June 9, 2015. View all posts by margaretadmin →. An alternative health manifesto for general practice. RCGP council 20/6/15 →. Notify me of new posts by email.
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Nitrous oxide – Inside Health 23/7/15 | Margaret McCartney's Blog
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Margaret McCartney's Blog. Nitrous oxide – Inside Health 23/7/15. 76% 16-24 year old reported use in 2013/4. Https:/ www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment data/file/368576/RestrictingSupplyNitrousOxide.pdf. ACDM letter to Theresa May. Https:/ www.gov.uk/government/publications/acmd-advice-on-nitrous-oxide-abuse. Https:/ www.gov.uk/government/collections/psychoactive-substances-bill-2015. Http:/ services.parliament.uk/bills/2015-16/psychoactivesubstances.html. June 23, 2015.
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Knee arthroscopy – Inside Health 21/7/15 | Margaret McCartney's Blog
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Margaret McCartney's Blog. Knee arthroscopy – Inside Health 21/7/15. 4271 Bupa Medical Poster Orthopaedic v7 (2). NEJM sham surgery RCT. Http:/ www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa013259. Further trial with control group having maximum medical/physiotherapy. Http:/ www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa0708333#t=articleBackground. RCT physiotherapy vs surgery for moderate-severe arthritis of knee. Http:/ www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa0708333. Meniscal tears are commonly asymptomatic. June 28, 2015.