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Re:Post-surgical deaths in Scotland drop by a third, attribu... by treis on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @05:00PM (#19686439)
The way they run these studies is crazy to me:

>Only 3 of 22 operating stations (13.6%) had a functioning pulse oximeter prior to the intervention; accordingly, a pulse oximeter (model 7500; Nonin Medical Inc) was installed at each operating station as part of the implementation effort

The addition of essential medical equipment surely won't bias our results!

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Re:Post-surgical deaths in Scotland drop by a third, attribu... by dpe82 on Thursday April 18, 2019 @05:06AM (#19689722)
One could argue the essential medical equipment was missing due to lack of checklists ensuring its existence. That said, yeah, it would have been better to do 2 separate studies then: one on adding the equipment and then one on checklists.
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