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Re:Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jump... by nhkcode on Friday June 02, 2023 @04:23AM (#36162596)
Finally someone is filling the knowledge gap identified by https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC300808/
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Re:Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jump... by jodrellblank on Friday June 02, 2023 @07:20AM (#36163696)
> “Indeed, in seminal work published in the BMJ in 2003, a systematic search by Smith and Pell for randomized clinical trials evaluating the efficacy of parachutes during gravitational challenge yielded no published studies.1 In part, our study was designed as a response to their call to (broken) arms in order to address this critical knowledge gap.”
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Re:Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jump... by lelandfe on Friday June 02, 2023 @09:01AM (#36164493)
> Advocates of evidence based medicine have criticised the adoption of interventions evaluated by using only observational data. We think that everyone might benefit if the most radical protagonists of evidence based medicine organised and participated in a double blind, randomised, placebo controlled, crossover trial of the parachute

“Oh yeah, tough guy? Jump out of this airplane.”

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