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September 25, 2010

Power Analysis

Anyone interested in discussing how to help people do their power analyses before collecting all their data? Perhaps this conversation sounds familiar:


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September 10, 2010

ARTICLE FOR 9/15: Methodological problems in the use of indirect comparisons for evaluating healthcare interventions: survey of published systematic reviews

Tom Fitzgerald has sent in this article for the September 15th journal club meeting:

Song, et al. Methodological problems in the use of indirect comparisons for evaluating healthcare interventions: survey of published systematic reviews. BMJ 2009; 338:b1147.

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September 09, 2010

The Haunting of Medical Journals: How Ghostwriting Sold “HRT”

This is a genuinely creepy article about how private medical education companies are hired by pharmaceutical companies to place positive information about specific therapies into the medical literature. It may be worth a discussion about the possible role of our DME in countering this sort of thing. Do we have the means to help clinicians sort literature wheat from literature chaff? Would Elsivier fund us or sue us for that effort?

Here's the article:

Fugh-Berman AJ, 2010 The Haunting of Medical Journals: How Ghostwriting Sold “HRT”. PLoS Med 7(9): e1000335. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000335

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