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Tag Archives: critical appraisal

Non inferiority trials

30 Nov

There’s been a recent rash of ‘non inferiority’ trials in the medical literature. The new oral anticoagulants are a great example. It’s hard to blame investigators. Proving that Drug B is better than Dug A is a very difficult thing … Read More »

board review, critical appraisal CFN, critical appraisal, FCEM, frcem, non inferiority 1 Comment

Magnesium for Migraine

23 Feb

Migraines are fun to treat. Not so fun for patients but at least we can fix most of them. It’s always nice to have another tool or two in the armamentarium for treating migraine. While hardly surprising given this noble … Read More »

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The 3MG Trial

16 Jun

Didn’t even know this trial was being done till Simon Carley posted on it. It came just too late to be added to be talk on the Crashing Asthmatic but there you go. Here’s my two cents on the trial … Read More »

critical appraisal asthma, critical appraisal, magnesium 2 Comments

Keeping up with the literature

16 Feb

Today I think I’m finally giving up on my old system. The old system was email subscriptions to the table of contents (TOC) of about 30 different journals that i filed under a gmail label and reviewed roughly monthly. If I saw … Read More »

critical appraisal, FOAM, geekery critical appraisal, emergency medicine, FOAMed, journal watch, lit review 14 Comments

Chest pain/protocols and algorithms. Not everyone needs an EST!

30 May

[I know the video isn’t immediately relevant but it’s still awesome…] From the blogs and podcasts, it seems that everyone in the US with a chest and some pain in it will get a rule out in the ED followed … Read More »

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