12 hour waits for a bed in the ED used to be a red line, never to be crossed.

Now it is a just a part of life in ED.

For every 72 patients waiting 8-12 hours in ED there will be one excess death.

This is still unnacceptable.
@rcem.bsky.social
#resuscitateemergencycare
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New paper published in Statistical Methods in Medical Research:

Comparison of statistical methods for the analysis of patient-reported outcomes in randomised controlled trials: A simulation study

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

My colleagues @beckiesimpson.bsky.social, @richardjacques.bsky.social and I had fun at
#EUSEM, though we are statisticians out of water among ED clinicians! We presented our work with NHS routine data: understanding avoidable admissions, winter pressures, and advisor skill-set & NHS111 performance.

Good question. I guess we're conceptualising of them as general health measures to be adjusted for - but as they're heavily inter-related (but different) it's difficult to justify either sitting before the other on a causal pathway. Measures are in routine data so can't be further decomposed.

A question for the #CausalInference community: best ways to include fairly generic measures of frailty and comorbidities (probably as a count) in a causal #DAG? #statsky #episky

Working with Taylor & Francis is simply unethical by this point. It’s unfortunately difficult to have AI use revoked from existing contracts but at least try, complain, if you have a book with them. And otherwise do not even consider.

My first... er, post(?) on here is a delightful one! Our new paper, a review of adaptive clinical trials and how their sample sizes are calculated and reported is live at BMC Medical Research Methodology. Unfortunately my fellow authors are not here yet.... #statsky #adaptivedesigns #clinicaltrials