John W Pickering

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Is the E-value a game changer?

Annals of Internal Medicine published today a very interesting paper introducing the "E-value" as a way of assessing robustness of Relative Risk, Odds Ratios, Hazard Ratios etc which may change...

07 July 2017 8,670 3 View

What do people think of the new Manuscripts app?

I'm going to have a look at a Beta for the Manuscripts app. It obviously works with Papers magic citations (I use Papers 2) & looks like it may make formatting academic articles to meet...

10 October 2015 7,329 19 View

What is an acceptable False Positive rate/Positive predictive value to rule-in AMI in the Emergency department?

The European Society of Cardiology guidelines and strategies such as TRAPID AMI aim to stratify patients into low ("rule-out"), intermediate & high risk ("rule-in") for AMI/ACS based on...

09 September 2015 1,702 8 View

Is there any need for a new nephrology journal?

I'm skeptical, especially as I have refereed a lot of low quality research. However, a conversation with a colleague led me to think that there may be some niche (maybe AKI or research in certain...

06 June 2014 9,944 5 View