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May 26 2023 This Week in Cardiology

This Week in Cardiology

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The Complexity of Managing Patients With AF After Stroke Precludes Simple Dichotomous Decision Making

The authors write that the complexity of managing patients with AF after stroke precludes simple dichotomous decision making. They then go on to say although we propose a different analytic approach that often seen in clinical trials this should not hinder interpretation of the trial data or their clinical utility. Sanjay Kaul from cedar sign I has taught me to become a Bayesian person he's let me use his Bayesian spreadsheet which we're allowed to use here because the authors don't stipulate a statistical hypothesis. Here is what you come up with when inputting the event rates and using a totally non informative prior you find that there is a 92% chance that early anticoagulation is the better strategy

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