Posts tagged absolute risk reduction
How to be Awesome at Biostatistics and Literature Evaluation - Part IV
How to be Awesome at Biostatistics and Literature Evaluation - Part IV

Finally! A practical, no nonsense guide to study design, bias, and literature evaluation.

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Clinical, Pharmacy School, Practice, ResidencyBrandon Dysontypes of bias in clinical studies, clinical research study heirarchy, case control vs cohort, prospective vs retrospective cohort, how to read a clinical study, how to interpret a clinical study, clinical literature interpretation, journal club, how to understand randomized controlled trials, biostatistics help, clinical literature evaluation tips, biostatistics tips, can you claim superiority in an inferiority trial, absolute risk reduction, is a meta analysis better than a randomized controlled trial, crossover studies, how to read a clinical trial, composite outcomes in clinical studies
The tl;dr Pharmacy Journal Club: Rivaroxaban with or without Aspirin in Stable Cardiovascular Disease (COMPASS)
The tl;dr Pharmacy Journal Club: Rivaroxaban with or without Aspirin in Stable Cardiovascular Disease (COMPASS)

This is our first ever journal club, so let us know what you think about it! Shoot me a line at brandon@tldrpharmacy.com. If there's enough interest, we may do more of these journal clubs in the future.

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Clinical, Pharmacy School, Practice, ResidencyBrandon Dysonxarelto, rivaroxaban, COMPASS trial, COMPASS journal club, tldr journal club, tl;dr journal club, aspirin, anticoagulation, biostats, biostatistics, literature evaluation, ARR, absolute risk reduction, journal club, statistics
How to Be Awesome at Biostatistics and Literature Evaluation - Part II
How to Be Awesome at Biostatistics and Literature Evaluation - Part II

This post explores the more applied concepts such as odds, risk, hazards, and correlation. These concepts are the heart of inferential statistics because they represent different ways of comparing one thing to another

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Clinical, Pharmacy School, PracticeBrandon Dysonbiostats, biostatistics, odds ratio, relative risk, hazard ratio, correlation, positive predictive value, PPV, negative predictive value, NPV, sensitivity, specificity, ARR, absolute risk reduction, relative risk reduction, number needed to treat, number needed to harm, incidence, prevalence