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Personal beliefs

Bayesian
RCTs
An example from Colchicine - CLEAR OASIS 9
Sunday, the 3rd of November, 2024
Jay Brophy

Reflections on peer review - part 2

Peer review
Transparency
How bad must it be before retraction?
Thursday, the 31st of October, 2024
Jay Brophy

Reflections on peer review

Peer review
Transparency
You can’t be serious!
Saturday, the 5th of October, 2024
Jay Brophy

Estimating Uncertainties

Uncertainty
Probability distributions
A quantitative exercise
Sunday, the 29th of September, 2024
Jay Brophy

Something old with spin (FAME-2)

Bias
Statistical analysis
Cherry picking with the best
Saturday, the 14th of September, 2024
Jay Brophy

Mortality following post operative atrial fibrillation

Bias
Statistical analysis
Does sex matter?
Monday, the 26th of August, 2024
Jay Brophy

TAVR vs. surgery - NHST gets it wrong (again)

Bias
Statistical analysis
Making intelligent inferences
Monday, the 5th of August, 2024
Jay Brophy

Does it make a difference - sedentary break

Bias
Statistical analysis
Who counts?
Tuesday, the 5th of March, 2024
Jay Brophy

Endotoxin exposure in asthmatic children and matched healthy controls

Bias
What counts?
Monday, the 19th of February, 2024
Jay Brophy

What is the prevalence of depression in medical students?

Evidence based medicine
Meta-analysis
No reliable answer from this study
Monday, the 5th of February, 2024
Jay Brophy

A personal (and disturbing) conversation with ChatGPT

AI
Honest but troubling
Tuesday, the 18th of April, 2023
Jay Brophy

Misinformed conclusions

Evidence based medicine
Bayesian stats
caveat lector
Saturday, the 15th of April, 2023
Jay Brophy

Something old and something older

Bias
Evidence based medicine
Immortal time bias, longstanding and persistent
Wednesday, the 22nd of March, 2023
Jay Brophy

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence

Bayesian stats
Bayes to the rescue?
Sunday, the 19th of March, 2023
Jay Brophy

What does scientific authorship mean?

Evidence based medicine
Bayesian stats
Sometimes, not much
Monday, the 5th of December, 2022
Jay Brophy

Medication Withdrawal - When Reasonable People Disagree

Evidence based medicine
Understanding the past
Friday, the 17th of December, 2021
Jay Brophy

Inaccurate References; Guile, Duplicity, and Perfidious Publications

Evidence based medicine
Guidelines
Bayesian stats
Trusting the guidelines?
Sunday, the 12th of December, 2021
Jay Brophy

Trade-Offs Versus Obfuscation

Bias
Evidence based medicine
Reporting biases?
Friday, the 26th of November, 2021
Jay Brophy

Covid testing in travellers

Statistical analysis
Worthwhile, I think not
Thursday, the 18th of November, 2021
Jay Brophy

Heparin in hospitalized COVID-19 patients

Statistical analysis
Faulty stats?
Tuesday, the 12th of October, 2021
Jay Brophy

New Covid drug

Evidence based medicine
Heavy on the hype?
Monday, the 4th of October, 2021
Jay Brophy

Covid vaccine myocarditis

Evidence based medicine
Guidelines
Bayesian stats
Where is the common sense?
Wednesday, the 29th of September, 2021
Jay Brophy

EXCEL - clearing the haze with Bayes

Bayesian stats
Adding clarity?
Friday, the 15th of January, 2021
Jay Brophy

Update on the science behind masks

Bayesian stats
Good enough?
Tuesday, the 24th of November, 2020
Jay Brophy

COVID, masks and poor science

Bias
Statistical analysis
Questionable interpretation?
Friday, the 17th of July, 2020
Jay Brophy

Pharma, bribes and MDs

Bias
Correlation or causality?
Wednesday, the 8th of July, 2020
Jay Brophy

Glad to be at the back of the queue

Evidence based medicine
How good is the evidence?
Monday, the 6th of July, 2020
Jay Brophy

Virtual Learning & Corporate Sponsorship

Bias
Time to worry?
Friday, the 15th of May, 2020
Jay Brophy

Montreal, a global Covid perspective

Visualizations
Information bias?
Tuesday, the 12th of May, 2020
Jay Brophy

Covid visualizations

Visualizations
An aid to understanding
Tuesday, the 5th of May, 2020
Jay Brophy

CABG vs. PCI in LM

Evidence based medicine
Good enough?
Thursday, the 16th of April, 2020
Jay Brophy

Dig is OK

Evidence based medicine
This is from a tweetorial looking at the safety and efficacy of digitalis in heart failure.
Friday, the 19th of July, 2019
Jay Brophy
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