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C-I-S: Residency

THER2-R Understanding and Applying the Results of Studies to Individual Patients (R007-THER2)


Description
This module presents, without formulas (well, there's one, but it's simple), how to interpret the results of medical research to understand how it can be applied to individual patients.
Content
  • Introduction
  • Welcome
  • Objectives
  • What's your diagnosis?
  • Statistics Are An Approximation of the Truth
  • Indicator of Statistical Significance: The P-Value
  • What is a P-Value?
  • Self-Assessment: P-values
  • P-values: Brought to Us by Potatoes and Horse Manure
  • Where Does the P-Value Come From?
  • This Ain't Physics
  • Wringing Out Information from P-Values
  • The Number Needed to Treat
  • What Is the Number Needed to Treat?
  • Calculating NNTs
  • Interpreting the NNT
  • Limits to the NNT
  • Relative Risk
  • What is Relative Risk?
  • Relative Risks and NNTs
  • How Relative Risk Can Mislead
  • Converting Relative Risk to an NNT to Improve Understanding
  • Confidence Interval
  • What is a Confidence Interval?
  • Beware Composite Outcomes (consider adding for res)
  • 1. Beware Switched Outcomes
  • 2. Beware of Inflated Composite Outcomes
  • 3. Beware of the Dominant DOE
  • Wrap-up
  • Wrap-Up
  • Dave and Allen Unplugged: The Value of RCTs
  • A Moment for Reflection
Completion rules
  • All units must be completed
  • Leads to a certificate with a duration: Forever
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