tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1474751880645498536.post4492919251756764709..comments2023-10-10T10:14:36.340-04:00Comments on Medical Evidence Blog: If you want a fair shake, you gotta get a trach (and the sooner the better)Scott K. Aberegg, M.D., M.P.H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17564774546019869201noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1474751880645498536.post-63850841075371822472010-05-05T02:25:29.592-04:002010-05-05T02:25:29.592-04:00Dr. Jim - that is the kind of complicated and inte...Dr. Jim - that is the kind of complicated and interesting analysis that only a person with your talents would dare to conduct.<br /><br />A simpleton like me would just design a study with a composite endpoint: at 28 or 60 days, it would be comprised of mortality, non-ambulatory status, requiring nutritional support, non-verbal, requiring vent support, requiring intravenous access, perhaps others. Those are the things that burden critically ill patients who survive the initial critical illness but remain "professional patients" for weeks or months after the acute storm has passed....Scott K. Aberegg, M.D., M.P.H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17564774546019869201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1474751880645498536.post-43160388955601282732010-05-04T13:17:53.540-04:002010-05-04T13:17:53.540-04:00Might this be the ideal study to sue an outcome li...Might this be the ideal study to sue an outcome like cost per QALY?James M. O'Brien, Jr., M.D., M.S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/01257286674480575518noreply@blogger.com