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Doing statistics can be difficult but understanding them can be fairly simple

Sensible Medicine

In the assessment of a clinical trial, we want to know if differences in baseline characteristics may have played a role in the observed outcome. The question to consider is…are the actual differences seen between the groups with regards to baseline characteristics large enough to have influenced the outcome?

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Chest pain followed by 6 days of increasing dyspnea -- what happened?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Written by Magnus Nossen, edits by Smith The patient in today's case is an 85-year-old male with a history of COPD and dementia. Incidence and Prognosis of Pericarditis After ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (from the Acute Coronary Syndrome Israeli Survey 2000 to 2013 Registry Database). References: [1] Lador, A. Hammill, S.

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