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Re:Hospital patients who refuse transfusion actually do bett... by Jan_jw on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @06:43AM (#11901049)
The report cites Clinical Professor James Isbister from the Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney. “Professor Isbister said Jehovah’s Witnesses were given better treatment by doctors trying to preserve their [the Witness patients’] blood. As a result they had better survival rates, and shorter hospital and intensive care stays than people who received blood transfusions during surgery,” reports the paper.

http://www.smh.com.au/national/health/surgeons-urged-to-avoi...

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Re:Hospital patients who refuse transfusion actually do bett... by DrScump on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @11:35PM (#11907042)
I don't see how they could limit the conclusion to just blood transfusions. JWs tend to live a very healthy lifestyle in general (diet, activity, community).
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Re:Hospital patients who refuse transfusion actually do bett... by maxerickson on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @11:48PM (#11907073)
They briefly describe their statistics in the abstract:

We used propensity methods to match patient groups and parametric multiphase hazard methods to assess long-term survival.

Looking at the full text, they matched the Jehovah's Witnesses with patients that had similar health profiles prior to the procedure.

I am not qualified to say anything about whether what they did has any validity.

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