So do the title length for the journal articles relating to your medical condition inversely correlate to your prognosis (i.e. the longer the title, the shorter your expected lifespan)?
11 pages with lots of graphs and statistics, 33 references and this was the conclusion; “ Among critically ill patients with acute kidney injury receiving continuous kidney replacement therapy, anticoagulation with regional citrate, compared with systemic heparin anti- coagulation, resulted in significantly longer filter life span. The trial was terminated early and was therefore underpowered to reach conclusions about the effect of anticoagulation strategy on mortality”. I’m surprised it was published in a general medical journal like JAMA. A more specialist journal might have been more appropriate...
too many variables and sorry but if I were dying of kidney disease and you were mostly interested in whether my meds were impacting the life of the filter in the dialysis machine, I would feel used... or pissed? (oops, guess I could not resist either)
So, what was it about?
ReplyDeleteUsing high-octane in that cheap BMW, or fuel-injection versus standard carburetors?
So do the title length for the journal articles relating to your medical condition inversely correlate to your prognosis (i.e. the longer the title, the shorter your expected lifespan)?
ReplyDelete11 pages with lots of graphs and statistics, 33 references and this was the conclusion; “ Among critically ill patients with acute kidney injury receiving continuous kidney replacement therapy, anticoagulation with regional citrate, compared with systemic heparin anti- coagulation, resulted in significantly longer filter life span. The trial was terminated early and was therefore underpowered to reach conclusions about the effect of anticoagulation strategy on mortality”. I’m surprised it was published in a general medical journal like JAMA. A more specialist journal might have been more appropriate...
ReplyDeleteThe next Harry Potter book?
ReplyDeleteTHE ARISTOCRATS!
ReplyDeleteI can only imagine the massive number of footnotes!
ReplyDeleteThought the footnotes were in the Podiatrists Journal?
ReplyDeleteSorry - it was just hanging there and I had to do it.
Brian, well played
ReplyDeletetoo many variables and sorry but if I were dying of kidney disease and
ReplyDeleteyou were mostly interested in whether my meds were impacting the life of the filter in the dialysis machine, I would feel used... or pissed? (oops, guess I could not resist either)