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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 ascertainment bias. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ascertainment bias. 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...
Saturday, September 15, 2007

Idraparinux, the van Gogh investigators, and clinical trials pointillism: connecting the dots shows that Idraparinux increases the risk of death

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It eludes me why the NEJM continues to publish specious, industry-sponsored, negative, non-inferiority trials. Perhaps they do it for my ent...
Monday, August 20, 2007

Prophylactic Cranial Irradiation: a matter of blinding, ascertainment, side effects, and preferences

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Slotman et al (August 16 issue of NEJM: http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/357/7/664 ) report a multicenter RCT of prophylactic cran...
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Professor of Medicine, University of Utah. Former affiliations: Outside Hospital x 7.5 years; Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University; Fellowship & MPH: Johns Hopkins Hospital & Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD; Residency: The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center; MD: The Ohio State University; BA, Spanish: Miami University, Ohio. All views are my own with NO institutional endorsement.
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