
E88: How to Read a Clinical Trial Paper
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Was the Glasgow Coma Scale Clinically Meaningful?
We're really good at three different Glasgow Coma Scales. But us as clinicians, we're not very good at assessing patients Glasgow Coma Scale when they actually started the pre-trial aspects of the traumatic brain injury and TXA study. So is that something that you can utilize as a good measurement? That's something we want to look at on any study. What index score, what type of scoring criteria did they use? And in the end, what are the results? Were the results statistically significant without being clinically meaningful?What does that mean? Oftentimes you'll have a study that will show benefit early on. It may show benefit at two hours, three hours, six
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