Sample size determinations in original research protocols for randomised clinical trials submitted to UK research ethics committees: review | BMJ

Sample size determinations in original research protocols for randomised clinical trials submitted to UK research ethics committees: review | BMJ.

 

Five year survival rates can mislead | BMJ

Five year survival rates can mislead | BMJ.

 

Un primo approccio alla probabilità: percentuali e trappole

www.sin-italy.org/TN&D/pdf/2012/03/GTN&D_2012_3_49-52_NICHELATTI_49-52.pdf.

 

Chocolate Consumption, Cognitive Function, and Nobel Laureates — NEJM

Chocolate Consumption, Cognitive Function, and Nobel Laureates — NEJM.

Fig 1. Correlation between countries’ annual per capita chocolate consumption and the number of Nobel laureates per 10 million population.

Another excellent example of why correlation doesn’t always equal causation.

From this study:

 

Shock and law : Nature News – -The Italian system’s contempt for its scientists is made plain by the guilty verdict in L’Aquila

Shock and law : Nature News & Comment.

anche NATURE ne parla a proposito di belle figure italiane e ritorno alla credibilita’

 

What is risk? | BMJ

What is risk? | BMJ.

bello: procuratevi il full text: cos’e’ il rischio?

Se lo sapessimo saremmo a posto (magari lo sanno meno i magistrati a cui forse andrebbe spedito obbligatoriamente magari tradotto in italian0    

 

 

 

A Randomized Study of How Physicians Interpret Research Funding Disclosures — NEJM

APPUNTO

A Randomized Study of How Physicians Interpret Research Funding Disclosures — NEJM.

CONCLUSIONS

Physicians discriminate among trials of varying degrees of rigor, but industry sponsorship negatively influences their perception of methodologic quality and reduces their willingness to believe and act on trial findings, independently of the trial’s quality. These effects may influence the translation of clinical research into practice

 

•La regressione di Cox

•La regressione di Cox Fabio Provenzano, Graziella D’Arrigo, Carmine Zoccali, Giovanni Tripepi

 

JAMA Network | JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association | Limitations of Administrative Databases

JAMA Network | JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association | Limitations of Administrative Databases.

Clinical research relying on readily available, inexpensive data originally collected for administrative or billing purposes or both has increased exponentially. Yet the inherent limitations of these administrative databases are frequently ignored

 

Data Integrity and Presentation — Journalism, Verification, Skepticism, and the Age of Haste « The Scholarly Kitchen

Data Integrity and Presentation — Journalism, Verification, Skepticism, and the Age of Haste « The Scholarly Kitchen.

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