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$3 Million Prize Offered to Solve Hospital Admissions Puzzle
This is a big deal – I suggest anyone attempting this would want to be good at statistics, large messy datasets and probably machine learning… or is there a better alternative? $3 Million Prize Offered...
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At risk of hypertension?
Then you can choose to (a) take drugs that may increase the risk of cancer and further cardiovascular problems, or (b) lose weight, reduce sodium intake, increase physical activity and reduce alcohol...
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Catherine D. DeAngelis leaves JAMA
The editorial describing her time at the journal is here. If you have access to the full version, watch out for the very big punch near the end. A visionary, or provoking deliberate change? Only time...
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Ioannidis and Garber describe personalised cost-effectiveness for treatments
John Ioannidis and Alan Garber, both from Stanford, have just published a new and interesting article in PLoS Medicine on individualised cost-effectiveness analysis. They think (and I agree) that...
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Australians’ views of our own health system
In a data briefing published in the last couple of days in the BMJ, there was an interesting graphic that indicated the public perception of the healthcare system. Although it isn’t particularly easy...
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On open access – practical issues
Upulie Divisekera, prolific tweeter and all-around awesome scientist, wanted to write a thing about open access and was nice enough to ask me for some help. The result, which you can find on Crikey and...
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