RI-CLPMs use a multilevel approach to test for within-person differences that inform on the extent to which an individual’s increase in cannabis use precedes an increase in that individual’s psychosis symptoms, and vice versa. The approach provides the most rigorous …
Category: outcomes measurement
Carbs May Be Intrinsically Bad, Regardless of Weight
This week , another nail in the carbohydrate coffin as a small but rigorous study appearing in JCI Insight suggests that a low-carb, high-fat diet improves the metabolic syndromeeven when weight doesn’t change.[1] Source: Carbs May Be Intrinsically Bad, …
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Homelessness and the Failure of Urban Renewal | Mises Wire
In the department of economy, an act, a habit, an institution, a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a series of effects. Of these effects, the first only is immediate; it manifests itself simultaneously with its …
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Musings and Mentions
As we continue to examine the outcomes of socioeconomic initiatives throughout our history, it becomes apparent that society’s benefits are not necessarily derived from good policies as much as from the absence of bad ones. – Robert Nelson
Aim your baloney detector at the BS in health care – STAT
BS, what Princeton philosopher Harry Frankfurt once calleda “lack of connection to a concern with truth — this indifference to how things really are,” has probably been around since the beginning of language. Health care has an acute BS problem, …
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Scientists rise up against statistical significance
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 …
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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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