But what would this 'systematic' be other than to systematically apply every relevant piece of reliable evidence we have about trials and make a...
But GRADE does not address the bias of the assessors. The permitted reasons for downgrading are applicable to just about anything if you want to....
Yet GRADE specifically says it is not this. It says it is subjective, not objective - it needs interpretation. So when it comes to the bias bit it...
At least NICE seemed to concede that they didn't get the competing interest issue right in 2007. They didn't seem to get it quite right this time...
But that is not the alternative. The alternative is to do things as carefully as practical. GRADE has two components. One is a set of rules about...
There may be some of the underlying dislike of high tech medicine behind the EBM programme that is so prevalent in Cochrane. But the more basic...
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Standing back it may be important to realise just how easy it may be not to realise how muddled and self-serving the thinking of medical...
A lot of this is good. Some of the pharmacological recommendations are bad and unevidenced though. It would have been nice to hold this up as...
Quite common - much more in women if not associated with specific autoimmunity.
I have told him about it.
This is a quote from Lynne Turner-Stokes. Which emphasises just how muddled everything, and Tom, is. GRADE is crap, just as Lynne says, but for...
But George M:)nbiot doesn't work that way.
But is it. I thought Chalder was doing this sort of thing thirty years ago.
He talked to several of us and we could have explained if he had asked. He even put this weird subtitle in suggesting that it was NICE that was...
Tom Chivers seems to be remarkably naive. I could have explained to him all the stuff he complains about not knowing. I fear he likes to find a...
My decorators always move the furniture. Usually they put it all in the middle of a room with dust sheets over. And that's two lots of decorators....
That would be Raynaud's then.
I read the overdiagnosis comment, together with the one about subjective measure as referring to the PACE trial having been marked down on these...
But it is a myth, isn't it? We have been asking patients about pain and fatigue since trials began.
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