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SGEM Xtra: This is My Life – Centralization of Rural Emergency Healthcare

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

John Brown PhD is a Professor of Health Services Research in Ireland who has been studying rural healthcare issues since 2012. The pre-specified subgroup analyses showed a decrease in in-hospital or 30-day mortality for myocardial infarction, stroke, aortic aneurysm, and major trauma but not for pneumonia, bowel perforation or hip fractures.

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

Sensible Medicine

This is where we get into all the terms you see in research papers: p-values, and confidence intervals (typically 95%) – and in the media - margin of error. Inferential statistics actually do NOT help us test a research hypothesis about whether an intervention worked or not. This is the null hypothesis (no effect).

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Health to The Chief!

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Woodrow Wilson Wilson suffered several strokes, and was isolated in the White House by his second wife, Edith, who allowed only herself and his physician to see him. He survived only four months into his fourth term, dying of a massive hemorrhagic stroke in Warm Springs, Georgia, where he would vacation and do physical therapy.

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