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By this point, anyone who’s been covering or following COVID-19 knows that several comorbidities substantially increase the risk of complications…
Lead time bias is a well-recognized challenge especially when it comes to studies and statistics looking at cancer screenings. As…
I’m pretty sure Jonathan Howard, M.D., is not psychic — but I’m not 100% sure. After all, almost nothing in…
Physicians in all fields of medicine rely on guidelines developed by professional medical organizations to inform how they care for…
How much does the way you cover a study matter? If we judge that question on the basis of how…
I’ve discussed in previous blog posts ways in which confounding by indication can completely change the way observational research is…
I wrote in a previous blog about the importance of understanding confounding by indication and being sure to ask researchers…
More than 1,500 peer-reviewed studies have relied on a surgical database known as the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP),…
If you cover medical research related to vascular procedures and conditions, you’ve likely come across studies using data from the…
The first AHCJ conference I ever attended was in 2011 in Philadelphia. I had only recently learned about the organization…