How can #RCT and non-randomized studies best be integrated in a #systematicreview or guideline? Learn from Dr. Carlos Cuello Garcia at our free #webinar, Monday, Nov 4 at 10am EST. Register at https://t.co/T9adqi1QZM
Just published survey of oncology trials demonstrates seriously flawed subgroup inferences: https://t.co/Bwqo5DFSvw
Enlightened commentary highlights failure to consider prior knowledge, not reporting key interaction statistics, and ignoring multiplicity. https://t.co/M7WomMC3RE
".. private ownership [hospitals] tended to make higher profits than public hospitals.. primarily through the selective intake of patients & reductions to staff numbers."
".. increases in privatisation frequently corresponded with worse health outcomes"
https://t.co/q417JdxzkS
Return-to-office mandates might be a mistake.
4-year study of S&P500: when firms required people to come in, profits failed to climb—while job satisfaction & work-life balance fell.
If you want people onsite, don't treat them like toddlers. Make the trip worth their time.
How to keep an open mind:
1. Think like a scientist: treat your opinions as hypotheses and decisions as experiments
2. Embrace confident humility: argue like you’re right, listen like you’re wrong
3. Build a challenge network: seek out people who sharpen your reasoning
The psychology (and importance) of embracing uncertainty. People prefer advice such as "This is my best estimate, but there's still uncertainty around it" It's ok to say I don't know.
Admitting uncertainty doesn't signal that you lack expertise. It shows that you see complexity.
12 experiments: we're more likely to follow advice that sounds like a weather forecast.
We don't blindly trust those who claim to know. We trust those who know what they don't know.
Want to learn, refresh, or review the latest on the GRADE approach for evidence syntheses and decisions in health?
Join our workshop on May 17, at the CADTH symposium in Ottawa
#CADTHSymp#CADTHSymp2023
https://t.co/lNC2m5etSf
This week experts and technical advisors came together from around the world to discuss @WHO Essential Medicines in Geneva. Happy to be a part of this group!
Fantastic initiative. A methods guidance database. Challenging road ahead to make it sustainable, but many plans in the pipeline! Count on us to help out https://t.co/r5NOLG51mH