Check out a summary of the March 2024 Annals soundcloud.com/annalsofem from Ryan Radecki, MD MS and Rory Spiegel

fresh tiny blog: the cutoff razor

🪒 If a continuous variable is dichotomized using a cutoff, then values near the cutoff provide little information.

link:
emcrit.org/pulmcrit/cutof…

A lovely (and depressing) example of how EHR interventions, administrative 'facilitators', and hard-fought behavior/prescribing changes ... result in no demonstrable patient-oriented outcomes: #FOAMed
emlitofnote.com/?p=4705

TIL about SPACE HEADACHE

'Headaches in spaaaaaaaace ....!'
neurology.org/doi/10.1212/WN…

Bloodman Here's your next 'TXA is magic!' article:
oce.ovid.com/article/015861…

Trying to catch up on what's new in emergency medicine? Listen to the spoonfed February issue on Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts soundcloud.com/annalsofem (or read it here: annemergmed.com/issue/S0196-06… ) Rory Spiegel Ryan Radecki, MD MS

EM folk; very helpful summary of key papers on Saint Emlyn's stemlynsblog.org/top-resus-pape…

To paraphrase Ben Goldacre, when there is an issue with the airline industry, the answer isn't to invest in magic carpets

Nope – nudging/bothering/harassing patients via text message and other reminders doesn't move the needle on influenza vaccination rates.

Other factors at work certainly outweigh the need for a reminder.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…

Lovely wee article anyone might have missed last year: authors attempting to force AI image-generation models to produce unbiased and/or non-stereotypical images of Black African doctors – and failing.

thelancet.com/journals/langl…

Nice demonstration of the obvious – discarding information/dimension reduction may have negative impacts on downstream model training.

Fond memories of 2023? Relive a few of the most interesting articles from the year in ACEP Members! #FOAMed

acepnow.com/article/fourte…

'LLM dialect prejudice has potential for harmful consequences .... LLMs are more likely to suggest speakers of African American English be assigned less prestigious jobs, be convicted of crimes, and be sentenced to death.'

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arxiv.org/abs/2403.00742

Repeat after me: prognostic scores are not prescriptive. It is necessary to measure changes in behavior following exposure to clinical scores. #FOAMed

emlitofnote.com/?p=4702

#Anaesthesia fellowships in New Zealand. Multiple subspecialties on offer. #Anesthesiology

ANZCA The Australian Society of Anaesthetists NZSA Anaesthetists United Association of Anaesthetists Association of Anaesthetists Trainees Committee of Anaesthesiology Trainees Ireland Royal College of Anaesthetists College of Anaesthesiologists of Ireland

wdhbcareers.co.nz/home/job/view/…

Yet even more data FFP is worthless to harmful in patients with liver disease nature.com/articles/s4159…

We are probably overestimating the 2 year impact of AI in healthcare and underestimating the 10 year impact