BMJ : British medical journal
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Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study
Effect of telehealth on use of secondary care and mortality: findings from the Whole System Demonstrator cluster randomised trial.
To assess the effect of home based telehealth interventions on the use of secondary healthcare and mortality. ⋯ Telehealth is associated with lower mortality and emergency admission rates. The reasons for the short term increases in admissions for the control group are not clear, but the trial recruitment processes could have had an effect.
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Multicenter Study
Influence of experience on performance of individual surgeons in thyroid surgery: prospective cross sectional multicentre study.
To determine the association between surgeons' experience and postoperative complications in thyroid surgery. ⋯ Optimum individual performance in thyroid surgery cannot be passively achieved or maintained by accumulating experience. Factors contributing to poor performance in very experienced surgeons should be explored further.