
Episode 280: 279. Does Sitting In a Chair Improve Patient Stay in the Hospital?
Chair placement was not associated with a difference in patients’ ability to name their physician (P=1.0), ability to successfully identify their reason for hospital admission (P=0.82), or perceptions...
29 Apr 20247min

Episode 279: 278. Does a Swiss Ball Help During Labor and Delivery?
primary outcome was Duration of the first stage of labor was the primary outcome. AND It was 179 minutes shorter (95% CI 146 - 213) in the intervention group than in the control group (392 minutes; st...
26 Apr 20248min

Episode 278: 277. What Do You Do With Subclinical Hypothyroidism?
In older adults, mildly elevated TSH levels normalized in about 50% of cases during 1 to 2 years of observation.https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/109/3/e1167/7325863?login=true
25 Apr 20244min

Episode 277: 276. REDUCE-MI Trial- Should we still Give BBlockers Post-MI?
A study that was done before the widespread use of troponin only measurements for ACS (and certainly before high sensitively trop EVER EXISTED), a trial that took place before the first statin was ev...
24 Apr 20246min

Episode 276: 275. Do SSRI Increase The Rate Of Bleeding With Anticoagulants?
This translates into an absolute excess risk of ≈9 events per 1000 person-years or 1 per 110 person years. Sad differently if you treat 110 people for 1 year with a doac and an SSRI you will have one ...
23 Apr 20245min

Episode 275: 274. Do Your Genes ACTUALLY Make You Obese?
During follow-up participants walked on average 8300 steps and those individuals in the lowest genetic risk score developed obesity defined as a BMI greater than 30 approximately 13% of the time while...
22 Apr 20248min

Episode 274: 273. Does Telerehabilitation Work For Chronic Knee Pain?
And in the end it did not really matter because at 3 months individuals only reported a 0.16 difference in pain and a 1.6 difference in function which both were well within the noninferiority boundary...
19 Apr 20248min

Episode 273: 272. Does Bariatric Surgery Work in Diabetics For Cardiovascular Events
At 1 year 50% of those individuals who had bariatric surgery were able to achieve diabetic remission but after 12 years the very same individuals that received bariatric surgery had just a 13% success...
18 Apr 20248min





















