Medical Evidence Blog

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 normalization heuristic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label normalization heuristic. Show all posts
Sunday, March 23, 2014

Lost Without a MAP: Blood Pressure Targets in Septic Shock

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Another of the critical care articles published early online at www.nejm.org last week was this trial of High versus Low Blood-Pressur...
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Falling to Pieces: Hemolysis of the Hemoglobin Hypothesis

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A paramount goal of this blog is to understand the evidence as it applies to the epistemology of medical knowledge, hypothesis testing,...
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Monday, January 14, 2013

Hemoglobin In Limbo: How Low Can [should] It Go?

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In this post about transfusion thresholds in elderly patients undergoing surgery for hip fracture , I indulged in a rant about the irresi...
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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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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