Top 5 this week

#5: Redefining compassion: "A spiritual technology"
#4: CMS never events: Evidence of smoke in mirrors?
#3: The rose-colored glasses of early trial terminatio...
#2: Guidelines: What really constitutes level I eviden...

Drum roll for #1 post of the week: New treatments: What benefits at what costs

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#5: Reviewing medical literature, part 5: Inter-group ...
#4: Intervention in ICU reduces hospital mortality, bu...
#3: CMS never events: Evidence of smoke in mirrors?
#2: Medical decision making: More signal less noise, p...

And #1 post of the week is: Evidence and profit: An unhealthy alliance

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#5: Do private ICU rooms really reduce HAIs?
#4: Data mining: It's about research efficiency.
#3: To guideline or not to guideline, that is the ques...
#2: Reviewing medical literature, part 1: The study qu...

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#5: Reviewing medical literature, part 1: The study qu...
#4: Reviewing medical literature part 3 continued: thr...
#3: Reviewing medical literature, part 3: Threats to v...
#2: Reviewing medical literature, part 2b: Study desig...

And #1 post of the week is: Do private ICU rooms really reduce HAIs?

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#5: Guest post: How our brains are wired to advance sc...
#4: National Healthcare Expenditures, 2009 (In picture...
#3: Reviewing medical literature, part 1: The study qu...
#2: Radium, dopamine and innovation: Name your poison

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#1: Gaol fever and intercessory prayer: Redefining the...

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There has been significant interest in the p-value this week...

Here are the top 5 posts for the week:

#1: Why medical testing is never a simple decision
#2: Of P values, power, tobacco and cell phones
#3: P-values, Bayes and Ioannidis, oh my!
#4: Can a "negative" p-value obscure a positive findin...
#5: Getting beyond the p-value

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#5: Could our application of EBM be unethical?
#4: Evidence of harm
#3: Our nation's shocking Lady Macbeth moment
#2: Why are we still paying tobacco executives to kill...

And the #1 post this week is... Healthcare quality: 5 ways to stop the insanity

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#5: When the fuel gauge is on empty: Gadgetry at the e...
#4: Journalism or advertising? "The Health Show" on NP...
#3. Could our application of EBM be unethical?
#2: Our nation's shocking Lady Macbeth moment

And the #1 post is... CMS "never events": Are we rewarding the right thi...

Top 5 this week

The top five posts this week are as follows:

#5: Unidirectional skepticism
#4: Some implications of biologic plausibility
#3: The "but" is not the message
#2: Slow medicine

And the #1 post this week is... (drum roll, please)... Patient empowerment: A tango worth dancing

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Top 5 posts on Healthcare, etc. this week are:

#5 More thoughts on lung cancer screening
#4 Manipulating science
#3 Death panels and mammography: Only the beginning
#2 CT screening for lung CA: an epidemiology primer

#1 post this week is (drum roll, please)... Could our application of EBM be unethical?

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#5. Cognitive biases in medicine
#4. Evidence of harm
#3. Cognitive biases in medicine, part deux
#2. Cutting for evidence

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#1 for the week is: Furthering the discussion

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#5. What-based medicine?
#4. Disruptive innovation in healthcare: Overcoming HTE
#3. "The illusion of certainty"
#2. Lies and more lies: Are all lies created equal?

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#1 post this week is: Paternalism of "science-based" medicine