G'day!
Well, changing policy/recommendations and changing "all human behaviour" don't really bear much relationship to each other – I've never sneezed into my elbow and I've never seen any person do it in real life either. So out of interest I did a search on that. Two hits – one confirms this hasn't caught on:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21668695
This seems to still be the most recent systematic review and the word "elbow" doesn't appear to be in it – search date October 2010:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0013805/
Hilda
On 3/2/12 11:56 AM, "Dawes, Martin" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
Apologies for this but I am stuck
A nursing student asked me for the evidence for sneezing into the elbow
Trip search
"sneezing into the elbow" 0
sneezing into the elbow 10 - one unreferenced suggestion in a Canadian guideline
using the word sneeze did not help the search
a Pubmed search found two articles but no evidence
clinical trials elbow and sneeze - no trials
evidence-based- health jisc search - one reference from James McCormack in the early 2000's but no evidence
(incidentally searching this list is one of the most effective tools for ebm)
so - have we changed all human behaviour on a whim? - Help!
Thanks
Martin
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