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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 mortality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mortality. Show all posts
Thursday, January 5, 2017

RCT Autopsy: The Differential Diagnosis of a Negative Trial

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At many institutions, Journal Clubs meet to dissect a trial after its results are published to look for flaws, biases, shortcomings, limi...
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Monday, January 28, 2013

Coffee Drinking, Mortality, and Prespecified Falsification Endpoints

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A few months back, the NEJM published this letter  in response to an article by Freedman et al in the May 17, 2012 NEJM  reporting an ass...
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Troponin Predicts Outcome in Heart Failure - But So What?

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In today's NEJM, Peacock and others ( http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/358/20/2117 ) report that cardiac troponin is STATISTIC...
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