NPS symposium begins
May 21, 2014
NPS MedicineWise’s National
Medicines Symposium 2014 has
begun in Brisbane and as a prelude
to the event, NPS hosted a media
breakfast where it launched a ‘goto’
guide for media for responsible
reporting on medicines and medical
test issues.
HealthNewsReviews.org
publisher Gary Schwitzer, a keynote
speaker at the symposium, also
talked about responsible medical
reporting, including that in
HealthNewsReviews’ work over
seven years and 1,889 stories, 66%
were found to have unsatisfactory
reporting on how often benefits
occurred and 65% on how often
harm occurred.
The most common flaws included
conveyance of a certainty that
didn’t exist by exaggerating effect
size and using causal language to
describe the observational.
The symposium is being held until
23 May at the Brisbane Convention
and Exhibition Centre.
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