Our Golden Clipboard awards will be posted shortly but it's just coincidence that drugwonks is also undertaking an effort to carry on the tradition of rigorous scientific research that epitomizes meta-analysis both in terms of the intellectual firepower required to conduct it and the apolitical ways in which its conclusions are used to advance public understanding of the overall risk and benefits of treatments without regard to one's personal or political ambition.
To this end we intend to provide a prize for the best meta-analysis of the cardiovascular risks associated with participation in any clinical trials Steve Nissen has conducted. The only criteria for such research is that scholars must deliberately EXCLUDE any patients who did not have a heart attack or severe cardiovascular event as defined by them in their meta-analysis of Nissen-sponsored research. The events in the trial need not be independently adjudicated or be obtained from raw data. Just take the Ns from any trials you can find on Google, compare the cardiovascular risk of Nissen studies to any other set of studies at the same confidence level Dr. Nissen assigned to Avandia meta-analysis.
Oh -- and you can combine patients from as few as four studies.
Winners will have their studies posted well in advance of even on-line publication dates and handed directly to Henry Waxman if we can get to him.
To this end we intend to provide a prize for the best meta-analysis of the cardiovascular risks associated with participation in any clinical trials Steve Nissen has conducted. The only criteria for such research is that scholars must deliberately EXCLUDE any patients who did not have a heart attack or severe cardiovascular event as defined by them in their meta-analysis of Nissen-sponsored research. The events in the trial need not be independently adjudicated or be obtained from raw data. Just take the Ns from any trials you can find on Google, compare the cardiovascular risk of Nissen studies to any other set of studies at the same confidence level Dr. Nissen assigned to Avandia meta-analysis.
Oh -- and you can combine patients from as few as four studies.
Winners will have their studies posted well in advance of even on-line publication dates and handed directly to Henry Waxman if we can get to him.
