Clinicians and patient advocates were concerned by limited patient attention to risks of harm.
Clinicians explained that patients seldom inquired about the safety of GT and felt that patient hope for a treatment diverted attention from the risks of harm: "Deep down in the heart of any patient for whom there is no effective treatment or cure, clinical trials mean "this might be the thing that's going to help me"…so safety is…not their first concern". C10. C10
Although several studies have addressed the prevalence of deliberate self harm among young people in the community, little is known about the extent to which deliberate self harm comes to the attention of medical services, the self harm methods used and the underlying motives.
As such, patient attention was diverted from risks of harm and directed toward gaining access to trials.
33 Burnett, Carthey and Vincent stated that high-risk industries have shifted from focusing attention on incidents and realisation of harm to hazards and conditions that create safety.
The lioness moves her cubs to a new den site several times a month, carrying them one by one by the nape of the neck, to prevent scent from building up at a single den site and thus avoiding the attention of predators that may harm the cubs.
"Stalking is generally characterized by persistent, uninvited attention, with some harm or risk of harm attached," says James Liebman, a professor of criminal law at Columbia University.
It's Banned Books Week over in the US this week - the American Library Association's annual celebration of "the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment", designed to "highlight the benefits of free and open access to information while drawing attention to the harms of censorship by spotlighting actual or attempted bannings of books across the United States".
Recently, various accreditation bodies have started to pay greater attention to the reduction of this huge burden of harm to patients.
Banned Books Week is a chance for all of us to celebrate our freedom to read and to bring attention to the harms of censorship.
Despite the obvious risks of ASCT, possible benefits have been given closer attention than harms and little attention has been paid to those patients who were dying from ASCT [ 61, 71].
