Ben Goldacre and Brian MacKenna argue that hospital medicines data has huge potential to improve patient care and that its use for public good is being blocked by cultural, contractual, and political barriers, rather than technical complexity.
The NHS deserves better use of hospital medicines data
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17 July 2020
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Goldacre Ben, MacKenna Brian. The NHS deserves better use of hospital medicines data BMJ 2020; 370 :m2607
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