Episode 311: 310. METHODS MONDAY!! What is a Non-Inferiority Trial

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/STROKEAHA.124.047438We studied the risk of IS and ICH in women using LG-IUDs—aka mirana-- compared to women not using hormonal contraceptives.  The commonl...

2 Juli 20245min

https://shmpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jhm.13350Xu J et al. Hospital-associated venous thromboembolism prophylaxis use by risk assessment at a large integrated health care net...

28 Juni 20248min

https://www.bmj.com/content/385/bmj-2024-079329Overprescription of antibiotics by primary care clinicians is a major modifiable driver of antibiotic resistance. Evidence suggests that peer-comparison ...

27 Juni 20247min

Kityo C et al. Switch to long-acting cabotegravir and rilpivirine in virologically suppressed adults with HIV in Africa (CARES): Week 48 results from a randomised, multicentre, open-label, non-inferio...

25 Juni 20245min

95% CI does NOT mean there is a 95% chance the true value is in the interval. It means that if you continually resample, 95% of your confidence intervals (which will vary every time you resample), wil...

24 Juni 20248min

https://academic.oup.com/jcem/advance-article/doi/10.1210/clinem/dgae290/7685305?login=trueChildren aged 1-18 years to prevent rickets and to potentially lower the risk for respiratory tract infection...

21 Juni 202414min

What is the power of a study—what is the power calculation? Often say it is the number of people in a study. Power is the probably to correctly reject the null hypothesis. Said differently power is th...

17 Juni 202415min