Showing posts with label Bayes' Theorem. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bayes' Theorem. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Bad Science + Zealotry = The Wisconsin Witch Hunts. The Case of John Cox, MD

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John Cox, MD I stumbled upon a very disturbing report on NBC News today of a physician couple in Wisconsin accused of abusing their ado...
Thursday, February 15, 2018

Ruling Out PE in the ED: Critical Analysis of the PROPER Trial

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This post is going to be an in-depth "journal club" style analysis of the PROPER trial. In this week's JAMA, Freund et ...
Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Don't Get Soaked: The Practical Utility of Predicting Fluid Responsiveness

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In this article in the September 27th issue of JAMA , the authors discuss the rationale and evidence for predicting fluid responsiveness ...
Wednesday, July 22, 2015

There is (No) Evidence For That: Epistemic Problems in Evidence Based Medicine

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Below is a Power Point Presentation that I have delivered several times recently including one iteration at the SMACC conference in Chicag...
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Sunday, April 6, 2014

Underperforming the Market: Why Researchers are Worse than Professional Stock Pickers and A Way Out

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I was reading in the NYT yesterday a story about Warren Buffet and how the Oracle of Omaha has trailed the S&P 500 for four of the l...
Thursday, May 24, 2012

Fever, external cooling, biological precedent, and the epistemology of medical evidence

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It is rare occasion that one article allows me to review so many aspects of the epistemology of medical evidence, but alas Schortgen et a...
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Saturday, September 5, 2009

Troponin I, Troponin T, Troponin is the Woe of Me

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As a critical care physician, I have not infrequently been called to the emergency department to admit a patient on the basis of "abnor...
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Saturday, March 14, 2009

"Statistical Slop": What billiards can teach us about multiple comparisons and the need to assign primary endpoints

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Anyone who has played pool knows that you have to call your shots before you make them. This rule is intended to decrease probability of ...
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