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Diclofenac and the risk of post-ERCP pancreatitis
Keith Rix 87

Diclofenac and the risk of post-ERCP pancreatitis

by Keith Rix

 

Commentary

Although the detail of this judgment is for diabetologists and gastroenterologists it is of general interest with regard to its treatment of statistical evidence, reliance on odds ratios and relative risk ratios and the position taken by the court on the relationship between the civil standard of proof and confidence intervals.

Case

This was the trial of the Claimant's claim for damages for clinical negligence arising out of an endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography procedure (ERCP) performed on 16 July 2019.

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