The College wishes all candidates who are presenting for the Second Part Examination written component today (Wednesday 8 March) across Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand and in Hong Kong. Good luck!
@psirides Yes fellow human!! This is indeed a jocular story of no real consequence that should cause our fellow humans no concern!! Let us express mirth together. Ha. Ha. Ha.
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@K_Sheldrick At the end of the day though, surely the best way to see if the Marik trial was fraudulent is to review the patient records? I would have thought that the hospital, the supervising ethics committee and the Journal have some obligation to follow this up.
@Jikkyleaks So if they weren’t actively matched then the distribution of baseline variables between the groups was down to chance. Commenting that the probability of observing the reported distribution is extremely low seems reasonable
@Jikkyleaks I can’t understand why you are claiming the controls were matched in Marie’s paper? The methods seem explicit “The control group consisted of a similar number of consecutive patients admitted to our ICU…”. If they were consecutive they can’t have been matched.
@K_Sheldrick@nickmmark Certainly here in Australia: we added on an analysis of vitamin C levels in septic shock to our paper looking at cortisol and aldosterone (AMJRCCM 2020).
The VITAMINS study (JAMA 2020) was was conceived purely due to Marik's paper. I'm sure there would have been others