Our call to retire statistical significance and to use confidence intervals as compatibility intervals is not a panacea. Although it will eliminate many bad practices, it could well introduce new ones. Thus, monitoring the literature for statistical abuses should be …
Category: outcomes measurement
University of Lynchburg launches Master of Health Benefits Design – University of Lynchburg
“There’s a need for cohesive education that shows corporations and benefits advisors how to tie together value-based approaches to health care that provide higher quality health care at significantly lower costs,” program director Dr. Tom Scott said. “Health care is …
Sometimes You Just Gotta Treat It | A Country Doctor Writes:
Notes from a doctor with a laptop, a house call bag and a fountain pen I thought to myself about how often specialists are in a position where they can simply declare “Not my department”, but primary care docs are …
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Opioid Policy: The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea | Medpage Today
Great insight and perspective by Heath McAnally, MD, MSPH, regarding the sometimes reactive, albeit good intentioned, response of gov’t and private entities to the opioid crisis. Worth the read for sure. Pendulum swings in medicine aren’t new, but damping the oscillation …
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The generalist curse | Canadian Healthcare Network – Physicians
In the days before we were smart, doctors used to name things after famous dead doctors. This gave us Morton’s toe, Virchow’s node, and a million other quirky artifacts. It took decades to break the habit. Now it is de …
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Fish Oil Flops for Asthma Control in Overweight Youth | Medpage Today
Fish oil supplementation was not associated with improvements in asthma-related outcomes among overweight/obese teens and young adults with uncontrolled asthma in randomized trial. Six months of treatment with 4 g/day of fish oil did not improve self-reported asthma control or …
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Watch “Jordan Peterson | Using Money Productively” on YouTube
Welcome to another edition of Friday’s Philosophical Foray Beyond Healthcare brought to you by the Sovereign Patient blog. Professor Peterson discusses the implications of the genetic lottery, hard work, success, competence hierarchies, merit and fairness as determinants of social stability …
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Check Your Scientism!
You might be Scientismist if… …you source-cite frantically to substantiate your views, even if you haven’t analyzed the data or the methods used or considered the limitations of the findings? …you automatically believe certain sources and dismiss others without reading …
