tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post5427883647796164088..comments2024-03-28T01:27:23.408-04:00Comments on Health Care Renewal: Those Who Dismiss Healthcare (and Healthcare IT) Adverse Events Reports as Mere "Anecdotes" Have Lost - Supreme Court-StyleRoy M. Poses MDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00497209843184497847noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-17261937122364379412011-03-28T14:36:13.342-04:002011-03-28T14:36:13.342-04:00Jan Krouwer said...
Another way of looking at thi...Jan Krouwer said...<br /><br /><i>Another way of looking at this (“did not reach a level of statistical significance”) is that hypothesis testing is the wrong analysis method.</i><br /><br />One does not need an analysis method when pushing widgets in a profitable sector.<br /><br />The only "hypothesis" in health IT seems to be that health IT is 100% beneficent, incapable of harm, InformaticsMDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03994321680366572701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-70083000981780216872011-03-28T08:13:58.076-04:002011-03-28T08:13:58.076-04:00Another way of looking at this (“did not reach a l...Another way of looking at this (“did not reach a level of statistical significance”) is that hypothesis testing is the wrong analysis method. Given that one has an adverse event reporting system, one should compute the <i>rate</i> of adverse events with its confidence interval (the confidence interval is especially important when the observed rate is zero). One can then decide if the adverse Jan Krouwerhttp://jkrouwer.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-37628057141894619032011-03-27T19:30:09.497-04:002011-03-27T19:30:09.497-04:00Anonymous March 27, 2011 3:05:00 PM ED writes:
Bl...Anonymous March 27, 2011 3:05:00 PM ED writes:<br /><br /><i>Blumenthal ... used the same depreciating expression to describe the adverse events, "anecdotes". </i><br /><br />I believe that is correct.<br /><br />The next time doctors hear the word "anecdote" concerning their reports of HIT dangers, maybe they should shove some Zicam up the anecdotalist's nose.<br /><br />InformaticsMDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03994321680366572701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-67505824940493151722011-03-27T15:05:26.018-04:002011-03-27T15:05:26.018-04:00Kudos to the Court for rendering a verdict against...Kudos to the Court for rendering a verdict against the corporation.<br /><br />As for HIT, the HIT vendors, their trade group HIMSS, and its legitimization pop-up $see$hit (CCHIT) knew all along about the defects, flaws,injuries and deaths from the equipment they were selling and falsely promoting as being safe on their websites. <br /><br />Blumenthal knows also, of the dangers (from his own Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-31270639624598110892011-03-27T14:34:30.294-04:002011-03-27T14:34:30.294-04:00"But the supreme court is a bunch of conserva...<i>"But the supreme court is a bunch of conservative leaning bumblers who don't know nothing about medicine and doctoring or computin and health information." Which falacy is this?</i><br /><br />Classic ad hominem!<br /><br />I guess it would not surprise me to hear that type of comment, but not made in jest, as a result of the court decision.<br /><br />-- SSInformaticsMDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03994321680366572701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-6136196772319353622011-03-27T14:02:31.943-04:002011-03-27T14:02:31.943-04:00My wife and I just returned from our yearly trip t...My wife and I just returned from our yearly trip to France. This post reminded me that a couple of years ago I saw two articles: One outlined how all French students wanted to be philosophy majors. The second article highlighted how all French students felt the government owed them a job at a salary reflective of their university education.<br /><br />The end result is not hard to imagine. A Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-593171058919999022011-03-27T10:50:26.558-04:002011-03-27T10:50:26.558-04:00"But the supreme court is a bunch of conserva..."But the supreme court is a bunch of conservative leaning bumblers who don't know nothing about medicine and doctoring or computin and health information."<br /><br />Which falacy is this?Live IT or live with itnoreply@blogger.com