Medmastery: PPV and Specificity
Franz Wiesbauer looks at the impact of specificity and sensitivity on positive predictive value (and thus validity of a test) and why one has a bigger impact than the other.
Tag literature review
Emergency Literature Hot updates
Best literature on resuscitation published 2018 including Paramedic 2, Airways 2, CAM. A rapid fire review critically analysing the hottest papers published during 2018
Best Emergency Medicine literature 2018/19
Ken Milne the author of sceptics guide to emergency medicine SGEM reviews the hottest critical care literature for 2018 2019
Medmastery: prognosis and life tables
Franz Wiesbauer explains how to express prognosis with the help of life tables and why this is essential to understanding Kaplan Meier curves.
Medmastery: PPV and prevalence
Franz Wiesbauer looks at how a doctor can work out the probability of disease when confronted with a positive or a negative test result and how the prevalence of a given disease affects this probability.
Acute Coronary Syndromes Literature Summaries
Acute Coronary Syndromes (ACS) Literature Summaries