Looking AHEAD to a day when Intent to Treat is a thing of the past ...

... it's not a competition, the compliant/successful are analyzed separately, and while we're at it, perhaps we can do away with this notion that any single outcome or cluster of outcomes is somehow more important because we've designated them as "primary" ahead of time.Such is where I find my thoughts wandering as the Look AHEAD diabetes trial passes in and out of my head as I absorb the discussions of it here and about the web.  Read more...

Letter To U.S. Senators and Representatives Who've Sought HHS Input On EHR Problems

Several members of Congress have written HHS demanding meetings on health IT issues such as upcoding, test overutilization, misuse of incentive programs, and other factors as here.However, what was largely left out was the issue of safety.I've written this letter to the congresspeople who've written to HHS secretary Sebelius (PDF available at this link):October 24, 2012To:Sens. Coburn, Burr, Roberts and ThuneReps. Ellmers, Camp, Herger, Upton and...