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Cardiovascular Pharmacist-Researcher - Assistant Prof @ubcpharmacy | Scientist @cheosnews | EBM & shared decision making enthusiast, all-around nerd. No COI.
Feb 5, 2020 24 tweets 13 min read
How to Critically Appraise a Trial in 10 Minutes: The NERDCAT Approach: The Tweetorial 1/ 2/ The resources:
Go to nerdcat.org for the latest version of all the NERD critical appraisal tools, including NERDCAT-RCT: static1.squarespace.com/static/56a0651…
@medmyths literally wrote an iBook on this, available at: therapeuticseducation.org/sites/therapeu…
Jan 8, 2019 8 tweets 2 min read
@ESC_Journals Surprised that a meta-analysis with so many errors made it past peer review: academic.oup.com/eurheartj/adva… . I hope that by raising awareness of these issues, this article can be withdrawn and revised before it makes it into print 1/n 2/n – Here’s the basic intended design: Systematic review with meta-analysis of all randomized controlled trials (RCTs) comparing atorvastatin 80 mg/d (“load”) vs control in patients with ACS treated with PCI on CV events.