The road to health care
Attributed to Arthur L Bloomfield Before you next get into your car or walk out into the street, reflect that the number of deaths from road crashes in the United Kingdom is about 3400 a year.1 Elsewhere in the world the rates are up to six times higher.2 Now compare that with the extrapolated fig...
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| description | Attributed to Arthur L Bloomfield Before you next get into your car or walk out into the street, reflect that the number of deaths from road crashes in the United Kingdom is about 3400 a year.1 Elsewhere in the world the rates are up to six times higher.2 Now compare that with the extrapolated figure for the United Kingdom of more than twice that number of deaths each year from adverse drug reactions, estimated from the results of a prospective study published in this theme issue of the BMJ.3 Now try to estimate the benefit to harm balance of a road trip and the benefit to harm balance of a drug that you have recently used. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:4dd7b95c-b1c4-48f1-b70c-1c0c9e3ac0ce2022-03-26T15:57:47ZThe road to health careJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:4dd7b95c-b1c4-48f1-b70c-1c0c9e3ac0ceClinical PharmacologyOxford University Research Archive - ValetBMJ Publishing Group2004Attributed to Arthur L Bloomfield Before you next get into your car or walk out into the street, reflect that the number of deaths from road crashes in the United Kingdom is about 3400 a year.1 Elsewhere in the world the rates are up to six times higher.2 Now compare that with the extrapolated figure for the United Kingdom of more than twice that number of deaths each year from adverse drug reactions, estimated from the results of a prospective study published in this theme issue of the BMJ.3 Now try to estimate the benefit to harm balance of a road trip and the benefit to harm balance of a drug that you have recently used. |
| spellingShingle | Clinical Pharmacology The road to health care |
| title | The road to health care |
| title_full | The road to health care |
| title_fullStr | The road to health care |
| title_full_unstemmed | The road to health care |
| title_short | The road to health care |
| title_sort | road to health care |
| topic | Clinical Pharmacology |