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This is discussion forum for physicians, researchers, and other healthcare professionals interested in the epistemology of medical knowledge, the limitations of the evidence, how clinical trials evidence is generated, disseminated, and incorporated into clinical practice, how the evidence should optimally be incorporated into practice, and what the value of the evidence is to science, individual patients, and society.

Showing posts with label effect size. Show all posts
Showing posts with label effect size. Show all posts
Sunday, August 27, 2017

Just Do As I (Vaguely) Say: The Folly of Clinical Practice Guidelines

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If you didn't care to know anything about finance, and you hired a financial adviser (paid hourly, not through commissions, of course) ...
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Thursday, April 6, 2017

Why Most True Research Findings Are Useless

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In his provocative essay in PLOS Medicine  over a decade ago, Ioannidis argued that most published research findings are false, owing to ...
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Friday, May 31, 2013

Over Easy? Trials of Prone Positioning in ARDS

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Published May 20 in the  NEJM to coincide with the ATS meeting is the (latest)  Guerin et al study of Prone Positioning in ARDS .  The edi...
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Monday, March 10, 2008

The CORTICUS Trial: Power, Priors, Effect Size, and Regression to the Mean

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The long-awaited results of another trial in critical care were published in a recent NEJM: ( http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/abstract/3...
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