There is another article on the same page saying there may be a million Long Covid sufferers, this time with Helen Stokes-Lampard as heroine....
New article in the Guardian featuring Rachel Pope and @dave30th's friend Carolyn Chew-Graham....
As Groucho Marx might have said. 'Well why don't we go for the centre of the solution?:nerd:'
That looks a good selection to go in a list. I think we need to be careful about exclusion categories though. There are probably exceptions to...
I would agree with @Sly Saint that they don't even achieve reproducibility of how, since Cochrane failed to even select the right sorts of trials....
Yes, well I suppose another way of looking at it is that if a GRADE assessment is so unreliable that you have to do it again yourself it is not...
That puzzles me because unblinded and blinded stages in drug development are widespread. If these are the very few that have unblinded and blinded...
The site says that recruitment will be based on non-probability sampling. That seems to mean that it will not be a random or representative...
That figures.
I guess that an argument in favour of using GRADE at NICE (but not Cochrane) is that it means that you have two sets of assessments. One is done...
But what is its use? I am unclear, except as a list of things not to forget to consider. Why do we need 'grades'. As Kavanagh also points out we...
But my point is that much of these 'standard procedures' are simply the nonsensical antics of GRADE grading - pages and pages of them - which in...
I am certainly not talking about taking over Cochrane's conclusions. I am simply referring to all the searching and sorting into subgroups that...
That is probably the norm. I think other forces are also at play at NICE though. A huge amount of work already done by Cochrane was repeated...
A study in effing and blinding?
I'm happy to look into it further, but as the review has not been retracted it seems that Cochrane is standing behind the conclusions. He is not...
I have plans to do something a bit more substantive! There might be publication bias because I know the result. But interestingly it is not the...
The other useful thing about Kavanagh is that he/she makes it clear that GRADE is not itself evidence-based. I would like to get more detail on...
Having read Kavanagh I think I understand the sentence about guidelines. He is suggesting that clinicians should look at a recommendation in a...
Thanks for the literature @cassava7. So I am re-inventing the wheel, but maybe if the wheel has been forgotten by the people that matter that is...
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