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Weekly podcasts covering concepts key to critical appraisal. Each episode explores an area of critical appraisal relating to a recent publications. The podcast supports the full Critical Appraisal Lowdown course which is available at www.CriticalAppraisalLowdown.co.uk All papers contained within t…

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    • Jan 21, 2018 LATEST EPISODE
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    Confidence intervals; significance of results

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 21, 2018 2:40


    From Gottlieb's recent paper regarding agents for restoration of sinus rhythm in SVT, published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine, what about the 95% confidence intervals made the results statistically insignificant?  References and relevant resources http://CriticalAppraisalLowdown.co.uk http://theresusroom.co.uk/papers-of-january-18

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    Heterogeneity; comparing studies

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 14, 2018 3:05


    From Gottlieb's recent paper regarding agents for restoration of sinus rhythm in SVT, published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine, why is comparing heterogenous studies difficult?  References and relevant resources http://CriticalAppraisalLowdown.co.uk http://theresusroom.co.uk/papers-of-january-18

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    Composite outcomes; why to be wary

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 7, 2018 2:32


    From a recent paper from Gottlieb's paper regarding agents for restoration of sinus rhythm and published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine on SVT, why should we be wary of composite outcomes and how should we interpret them?   References and relevant resources http://CriticalAppraisalLowdown.co.uk http://theresusroom.co.uk/papers-of-january-18

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    Underpowered studies & type 2 error

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 1, 2018 3:50


    From the recent paper from Furyk in the EMJ on oral and i.v. paracetamol, does the fact that the study was underpowered mean a greater chance of a type 2 error? References and relevant resources http://CriticalAppraisalLowdown.co.uk http://theresusroom.co.uk/papers-of-january-18  

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