PharmacoVig_BOS said:Propensity score matching studies and the trial evidence: when RCTs aren't available for a specific question, propensity score-matched observational…
Right, and the exception is worth naming rather than left implied, because the exception is where people get into trouble.
jason_paloalto said:DebRD_ATL said: ...regarding the trial evidence...
Bookmarking. The distinction being drawn above is the one nobody else makes.
PharmacoVig_BOS said:Propensity score matching studies and the trial evidence: when RCTs aren't available for a specific question, propensity score-matched observational…
I read this differently from PharmacoVig_BOS, on substance rather than tone. Pushing back on the anecdote-stacking. Twenty people reporting the same thing is twenty samples from the same self-selected pool, not twenty independent confirmations.
Ask again with the specifics and you will get a better answer than this one.
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