Evaluating Medical Claims and Data

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Greetings,

Just a reminder about a resource PAL provides on

Evaluating Medical Claims and Data

Our goal is to help patients and caregivers better evaluate medical claims:

To help distinguish between strong and weak information

To learn to avoid confusing associations with causality

To better recognize information that is not plausible or is weakly supported

How do we start?

By questioning the information we receive and by recognizing factors that

can distort medical claims and scientific findings. By referring when

possible, to the source documents and being skeptical of interpretations of

others. By recognizing common sources of bias.

TOPICS

Bias | Associations: Causal or Coincidental?

Subset analysis? | Baseball & the FDA

Billiards and Clinical trials:

Retrospective versus Prospective

Identifying Quackery | Is there an Impartial group?

Terminology | Statistics

Types of clinical data (best first)

The Problems with Testimonials

Weighing Sources of Medical Evidence

References

http://www.lymphomation.org/CAM-evaluating.htm

All the best,

~ Karl

Patients Against Lymphoma

Patients Helping Patients

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