November 14, 2010

New pain scale

This new pain scale needs to be validated.


This is the kind of constructive criticism our clinics need, I fear.

Posted by rbrent at 01:14 PM | Comments (0)

October 27, 2010

More info on industry-sponsored research publications

A new PLoS article suggests that since industry-sponsored publications increase journals' profitability, journals need to disclose this like a conflict of interest.


Lundh A, Barbateskovic M, Hróbjartsson A, Gøtzsche PC, 2010 Conflicts of Interest at Medical Journals: The Influence of Industry-Supported Randomised Trials on Journal Impact Factors and Revenue – Cohort Study. PLoS Med 7(10): e1000354. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000354

Posted by rbrent at 01:18 PM | Comments (0)

October 25, 2010

Use Dumb Fonts!


According to this BBC article,
putting text in hard to read fonts
yields better text recall after the reader is distracted.

I see nothing good coming of this. Is there any current research on simple tricks of learning that won't give us all headaches in the future? Comment below if you know any!

Posted by rbrent at 09:29 AM | Comments (0)

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:


Posted by rbrent at 10:19 AM | Comments (0)