#Randomization

Sam Edwards

samedwardsmd

Our letter to the editor in @NEJM on the @CamdenHealth Hotspotting RCT is out today.https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2001920#.Xs8sLXg5gik.twitterA thread explaining our thinking. Our basic point is that RCTs are not the most infor

Kevin J.S. Zollman

KevinZollman

I'm finally getting around to reading "Play Optimal Poker" by @thinkingpoker. POP is a poker strategy guide that puts game theory at the center of its discussion. So, I thought

David Juurlink

DavidJuurlink

Last week I was interviewed for a podcast about hydroxychloroquine.As we were wrapping up, the producer interjected and asked “Some doctors say it works, others say it doesn’t. As a

foone

Foone

You know what I hate? California State Lottery's Pac-Man scratchers. Lemme tell you why. It's not just because lotteries are terribly immoral and "a tax on people who are bad

Emily Walsh

drecwalsh

Since I’m on the topic of the possible limitations of COVID vaccine trial design.. 1/https://twitter.com/drecwalsh/status/1283577605686472705 And clearly exorcised enough to demand Gantt charts from people after 8pm on a Wednesday..2/

C. Michael Gibson MD

CMichaelGibson

Thread:Irregular heart beats (PVCs) after heart attack were associated with death but the common sense approach of suppressing them increased the number of deaths/arrests from 26 to 63 or by

Elan Ruskin

despair

I liked this video so much, I decided to write up all the bugs in it. Maybe other devs can spot things I missed, or speculate likely causes and assignees.(I've

Madhu Pai, MD, PhD

paimadhu

Thread on BCG vaccination and #COVIDー19.There has been a flood of ecological studies & media reports claiming that BCG vaccination protects against COVID-19. See:https://www.medrxiv.org/search/BCG%252Bcovid%252B Some of the studies are thoughtful

Alexandros Marinos

alexandrosM

WIP thread noting all the potential problems noted with the TOGETHER manuscript. These are being worked through by various people, and some of them will have good explanations. Gathering them

Francisco Marty, MD

FranciscoMarty_

Have been thinking on useful lessons from #COVID19 randomized treatment trials published to date, want to explore the disease spectrum of clinical #SARSCoV2 infection (aka, CoViDisease) and put some ideas

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buttplugio

Ok, time for a small [Thread] on the Game Haptics Router, consent, and the Fall Guys stunt yesterday.This is a bit of a lengthier followup to my replies to @acvalens

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ResusOne

1/Just out today (free) in @JAMASurgery @Guyettef @Jjasonsperrymd @joshua_b_brown et al.#TXA During Prehospital Transport in Patients at Risk for Hemorrhage After Injury: A Double-blind, Placebo-Controlled, Randomized Clinical Trial https:/

Rex Douglass

RexDouglass

Today I'll be live tweeting (Chu et al. June 1, 2020), the best systematic literature review on the effects of masks, distance, and eye protection that I am aware of:https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)311

MGKLab 2021

mightygodking

FALL GUYS GAMES RANKED FROM WORST TO BEST, A DEFINITIVE RANKING25.) Egg Scramble, one of the two games which is actually just completely flawed in concept The problem with Egg

Snake Oil Salesman

ghuubear

Currently thinking about- God as a mechanism to integrate the unknown unknown into real-world models. - God as an acknowledgement of complexity- God as a socio-cultural binding principle- God as

Dr Ellie Murray

EpiEllie

I love fries; you love fries; but should we only eat 6 per serving? Less is more is good advice but why 6 & not 5, or 7?Unfortunately, there’s prob