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Mirror, Mirror 2021: Reflecting Poorly | Commonwealth Fund

"How the 11 Countries Rank on Performance. The top-performing countries overall are Norway, the Netherlands, and Australia. The next three countries in the ranking — the U.K., Germany, and New Zealand — perform very similarly to one another." The UK was ranked #1 overall in 2017 - the last time this...
Source: commonwealthfund.org

Moving fast and breaking us all: Big Tech’s unaccountable algorithms

Much of the technology driving revenues for the world’s most powerful digital platforms is accountable to no one—not even the companies themselves.
Source: rankingdigitalrights.org

How empathic is your healthcare practitioner? A systematic review and meta-analysis of patient surveys: A growing body of

How empathic is your healthcare practitioner? A systematic review and meta-analysis of patient surveys: A growing body of evidence suggests that healthcare practitioners who enhance how they express empathy can improve patient health, and reduce medico-legal risk. However we do not know how consistently...
Source: biomedcentral.com

Pisa tests: UK lags behind in global school rankings - BBC News: The UK is still lagging behind at education, with little

Pisa tests: UK lags behind in global school rankings - BBC News: The UK is still lagging behind at education, with little progress in international rankings.
Source: bbc.co.uk

Book Review — The Traps of Big Data Revealed in “Weapons of Math Destruction” by Cathy O’Neil: The new book, “Weapons

Book Review — The Traps of Big Data Revealed in “Weapons of Math Destruction” by Cathy O’Neil: The new book, “Weapons of Math Destruction,” calls out many worrying trends in the application of big data, with particularly salient entries on higher education rankings, for-profit un…
Source: sspnet.org

Fewer antibiotics, better outcomes for complicated appendectomy patients?: With acute appendicitis ranking among the nation's

Fewer antibiotics, better outcomes for complicated appendectomy patients?: With acute appendicitis ranking among the nation's most common acute surgical emergencies, researchers studied the relatively routine use of post-operative antibiotics in complicated cases and found that they didn't reduce infections...
Source: medicalxpress.com

UK is the best place in the world to die, according to end-of-life care index: Integration of palliative care into NHS and

UK is the best place in the world to die, according to end-of-life care index: Integration of palliative care into NHS and strong hospice movement among reasons for UK ranking first in study of 80 countries
Source: theguardian.com