In this episode from the IPS conference, Prof Brett Mitchell is joined by Dr Evonne Curran who has worked in the field of infection prevention and control for a number of years, was a Nurse Consultant with Health Protection Scotland and is now an independent consultant. Together they discuss the relevance of guidelines to clinical practice and whether the development process is really producing guidance that is useful in the field of nfection prevention. In this podcast these papers are referred to:
Smith GC, Pell JP Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: systematic review of randomised controlled trials. BMJ 2003; 327: 1459-61. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC300808/pdf/32701459.pdf
Yeh RW, Valsdottir LR, Yeh MW et al. Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft: randomized controlled trial. BMJ 2018; 363: k5094. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/30545967/
Greenhalgh T Will COVID-19 be evidence-based medicine's nemesis? PLoS Med 2020; 17: e1003266. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7326185/pdf/pmed.1003266.pdf
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