#Randomization

Patrick Myers

pomyers

1/ Oh no… another tweetorial on #EXCELVery interesting to see so many IC colleagues underscore the importance of periprocedure MI in #EXCEL (to the benefit of PCI) and reverse 180°

Dr Gaetan Burgio, MD, PhD.

GaetanBurgio

This is the first decent Phase IIb randomized clinical trial on the use of #cholorquine CQ for severe #COVID19 patients with n = 80 (40 each group), low CQ vs

Health Nerd

GidMK

A systematic review/meta-analysis of honey vs other cough/cold remedies came out yesterday in BMJ Evidence-Based MedicineI think this is worth a quick peer review on twitter 1/n 2/n The review

saintscrem💀

saintscrem

I’ll turn these into a thread. Maybe if there’s a thread then we can see the broader picture of this experimental treatment for #COVIDー19:https://www.wnd.com/2020/04/beginning-end-renowned-doctor-sees-100-success-virus-drug/ From France, two tweets i

Natalie E. Dean, PhD

nataliexdean

Two interesting examples of how randomized controlled trials could build evidence for policy decisions - whether to offer alternative housing for isolation, and re-opening schools. Useful to start thinking now

Francisco Marty, MD

FranciscoMarty_

Time to share some thoughts and questions following the .@medrxivpreprint first release of results from the #SolidarityTrial that compared local standard care to #remdesivir, #HydroxyChloroquine #lopinavir_ritonavir and #interferon for trea

Raj Mehta, MD

raj_mehta

1/ Tweetorial on Cause & Effect in Evidence Based MedicineAlternatively: why we need to know the natural history of diseaseCausal reasoning is a core part of the practice of medicine,

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

Last week, a press released provided initial and promising results from a large scale trial of the corticosteroid dexamethasone in hospitalized COVID patients. Today the authors released a full report:

Vincent Rajkumar

VincentRK

Why do you often get confusing and contradictory messages from experts? Why does medical expert opinion sometimes seem incorrect, outdated, or even contrary to the evidence?1/ Medicine is really complicated.

Chaos

chaosprime

a big, contentious, people-flouncing-out-of-the-DM-group argument about astrology this morning has forced me to work out what i really think about divination. you may be shocked to learn that i'm a

D🅰vid Lee Jones

david_lee_jones

Hi guys over at @screamingfrog!Been readin' your article about your link score calculation and how it relates to PageRank and I have a couple of concerns. Let me just list'em

Charles Randall

charlesrandall

People working on roguelikes in the modern era need to start investigating how to massage RNG into something more consistent.https://twitter.com/MckKirk/status/1387739277564518404 If you want your game to be appreciated you need

Noah Haber

NoahHaber

Measure twice cut once (MTCO) is the solution if you want all 4 legs to be as close to 26" as you can. But that's not actually what you want.What

Vinay Prasad MD MPH

VPrasadMDMPH

As someone who wrote a book on this topicEnding Medical Reversal (2015) w @adamcifu This article hurtsUnless you have a parachute-- and lets be clear-none of these drugs are parachutes--

Bob Wachter

Bob_Wachter

I’ve not yet seen report on whether Trump has received dexamethasone (steroids); we know he already got remdesivir (antiviral) & “cocktail” of monoclonal antibodies. But steroids, the only drugs proven

John Poe

DavidPoe223

Well I guess Mr Dr Ranty Methods Curmudgeon is back because I'm about to go off on people muddling critiques of propensity score matching 1/https://twitter.com/PHuenermund/status/1251953408497668096 PSM is a method with