CSM should rethink its approach for such announcements

doi:10.1136/bmj.312.7030.576a

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Sarah Stewart-Brown,
Celia Pyper

Director Associate member Health Services Research Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6HE

EDITOR,—Klim McPherson estimates that in making its announcement when it did rather than waiting until all the relevant studies of third generation oral contraceptives had been published, the Committee on Safety of Medicines saved one life and prevented 80 cases of venous thrombo-embolism.1 Our concern is not with the timing of the announcement in relation to the publication of peer reviewed papers or with the committee members' appraisal of the research evidence but with the manner in which the committee communicated the information …