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Please join Kathryn Mannix Alan Stein & Greg Wise discussing the importance of talking to children about illness & death How can we make these seemingly impossible conversations possible? Wed 24th Feb 2021 at 5pm livestream.com/oxuni/communic…… Medical Sciences Oxford Psychiatry

We are reversing our decision to charge for placing a BMJ obituary. We have listened to readers and recognise and apologise for any upset caused. blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/02/23… The BMJ BMJ Group

Risks of false positives in school testing with Innova Innova testing of asymptomatics in England has very low rates of test positivity at the moment (0.3%). The lower this figure gets, the more likely a positive result is to be a false positive than a true positive. 1/7

If your tracking covid treatments or just after a nice summary this thread from ReedSiemieniuk. will give you plenty to get started...

Our graphics to illustrate the potential benefits and potential harms of the AstraZeneca vaccine as announced by the MHRA this afternoon. Benefits accrued over 16 weeks, at three different levels of exposure to the virus.

Would you like to apply to work with us on The BMJ as a clinical editor? If so take a look at this job. It is great (I'm biased because I also do this job and love it ;) Fun, interesting, lovely team. Can be done remotely as part of a portfolio career. social.icims.com/viewjob/pt1619…

Fancy entering? The Primary Care category in #TheBMJAwards recognises teams who have improved the health of the wider community through a specific project. The deadline to submit 14 June and you can gain national recognition for your work bit.ly/3xQht2W

Thanks The BMJ @natalie_banner and Cathie Sudlow Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) for talking with me. I hope GPs and members of the public continue to learn more about this project and others like it. Have a read, or listen to Natalie on BMJ podcast #TalkEvidence

How much difference does it make to open the windows? Wear a mask? What if we're eating? Questions we've all been asking about covid - hoping to help answer them with this new tool: bmj.com/content/375/bm… David Spiegelhalter @CathNoakes Harry Rutter Will Stahl-Timmins

"There was never a more important time to be evidence based, patient centred, open, and courageous. These are The BMJ's values, and we will live by them to improve the health of people and the planet" Thank you for each and every warm welcome The BMJ bmj.com/content/375/bm…

I also agree (from my biased position of loving working on the challenges of making our living evidence and guidance). It’s wonderful to work with people and organisations who want to make evidence and it’s translation work better

I wanted to find out whether changing evidence, or other considerations, were behind falling isolation periods after infection with covid. Allyson Pollock had an interesting perspective…

I have often stored away and borrowed phrases from members of the palliative care team. When I read this thread I’m reminded of why. (Thank you)

How should we deal with content published many years ago that may now be offensive or harmful? BMJ aims to acknowledge offence or harm while preserving the scientific record, write Kamran Abbasi, Helen Macdonald, and Simone Ragavooloo bmj.com/content/378/bm… BMJ Group

In the October episode of the #TalkEvidence podcast, the team discuss the efficacy of lateral flows, the covid inquiry, and what new research tells us about how clinician burnout affects patient outcomes Helen Macdonald Juan Franco 🏳️‍🌈 Joseph Ross podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/inq…

Our group has developed an inventory of all estimates of minimal important differences for all patient-reported outcomes known to humankind and rated the credibility of each MID. We are keen to work with anyone interested in using the fruits of our work. doi.org/10.1016/j.jcli…