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Re:The Uselessness of Phenylephrine by ropable on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @09:17PM (#30862799)
On the other hand: tracking clinical outcomes actually tells us if a treatment actually works - a net positive for the species, I'd have thought.
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Re:The Uselessness of Phenylephrine by tlb on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @09:20PM (#30862819)
Doing RCTs of a treatment tells you if it works. Without random assignment (or some clever experimental design) tracking outcomes really doesn't tell you anything.
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