“Nullius in verba.”Take no one’s word for it. A cornerstone of science for 350 years.
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Except that we often do have to take authors’ words for it. Most methods sections are skeletons of what is actually done - especially in computationally heavy studies.
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But what if articles were different? What if an article was instead a “platform” that shared data & code upfront for full transparency & reproducibility?
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Today @CircOutcomes publishes a new type of article. Science not on paper. Not on a digital PDF. But on a platform. An "experience" to be directly manipulated.
Science on a platform has several advantages, including better communication of complex ideas, greater transparency & reproducibility. The article is a secondary artifact of the study and not its primary product. See the editorial below...
Many thanks to @byron_jaeger@ramarajus - a special group of authors - for their work in putting this together. And thanks also to the @AHAScience Precision Medicine Platform for hosting data & code.
Extensive prior work has shown outcome differences between Black & White patients after surgery due to patient & hospital factors. In this paper, for example, Black patients undergoing CABG were sicker & more often treated at low-volume hospitals.