#RCTs

Jana O'Connor

sayitslp

This thread is getting a lot of new attention lately. (Hello #ADHDtwitter!) I've learned a lot over the year since I originally posted this. Here are a few insights and

Vinay Prasad MD MPH

VPrasadMDMPH

Ok, here is a little #Tweetorial about #COVID19 and whether, outside of a controlled trial, we should be using different:1. rules for anti-coagulation/ lytics2. ventilatory settings in ARDS3. anti-virals/ anti-inflammatories

Alex Kentikelenis

Kentikelenis

I am humbled that my paper w/ S Babb received the Best Article Award in Global & Transnational Soc.A personal thread–hopefully helpful for junior scholars–on what I learnt about academia

Simon Rosenbaum

simon_rosenbaum

Thread on exercise and mental health and potential considerations for COVID-19:1. Inducing sedentary behaviour in healthy people, can increase depression after as little as 7 days. Need messaging to replace

Kert Viele

KertViele

(1/n) Saw this letter in @NEJM…also covered by journalists. Concurrent vs non-concurrent controls is a complex issue in platform trials. This is a tweetorial on these issues, and a comment

Raj Mehta, MD

raj_mehta

1/ Tweetorial on Cause & Effect in Evidence Based MedicineAlternatively: why we need to know the natural history of diseaseCausal reasoning is a core part of the practice of medicine,

Dr Joanna Tai

DrJoannaT

Alright, I've made it to my computer before 9am in readiness for the @Monash_MCSHE webinar by Rachel Ellaway. Now, what's the hashtag?? Today Rachel will be talking about moral agency.

Joanna Poole 💙

Jopo_dr

Keep seeing covid19 is not ARDS circulating so few quick points. ARDS is defined by strict criteria, it is a syndrome, or a triad if one will, of hypoxaemia (FiO2:

Rob Watson

BrotherWatson

from the Head of ICU at the Royal Free. Please feel free to disseminate further. “Dear All, I have just finished a very useful ICU / NHS Nightingale teleconference, the

Elliot Tapper

ebtapper

1/HOW does gabapentin work?DOES gabapentin work? WHY is gabapentin so shady?Join me for a #tweetorial?Keywords: Glutatmate, Asterixis, Alcohol-use disorder#livertwitter #MedTwitter #meded 2/Admitting a non-#cirrhosis patient with gabapentin

Dr Suzy M_rt_n 🅾️➕

TransfusionWM

I was on call for NHSBT last week and have discussed lots of patients for whom we have agreed to transfuse granulocytes (GTX). But what are they, when do we

Vinay Prasad MD MPH

VPrasadMDMPH

What I have learned from COVID19:[Thread] 1. Public health is undervalued, underfunded, neglected, mistreated, and it is easy to get away with that for years, decades, but someday that ends

Vinay Prasad MD MPH

VPrasadMDMPH

As someone who wrote a book on this topicEnding Medical Reversal (2015) w @adamcifu This article hurtsUnless you have a parachute-- and lets be clear-none of these drugs are parachutes--

Leslie Walker

leslie_walker_

Today is the anniversary of @KlayThompson going off on OKC in Game 6 of the WCF. It's also @tradeoffspod drop day. Here's an 11-part thread, one for every 3 Klay

Health Nerd

GidMK

Ok, this has been bugging me since yesterday, so I thought I'd actually go through this new webpage that claims Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is effective for COVID-19 and review itHere goes

robert rosencrans

rfrosencrans

Trials claiming benefits of weight loss *actually* measure many effects of pleiotropic interventions (incl. weight loss). But we don't manipulate weight. No manipulation, no causality. It's scientifically irresponsible to confuse