Tag: data
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Control yourself: the self-controlled case series
Does influenza increase the risk of acute myocardial infarction (AMI)? Do bivalent mRNA COVID-19 vaccines cause acute ischemic stroke? Relevant questions, but difficult to answer. Incidences of both outcomes are low, precluding an answer from randomised trials (in case of vaccination) and analyses from observational studies will be flawed by…
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Are you safe in a hospital?
What do you see when you think back to hospital wards during the heath of the COVID-19 pandemic? Overcrowded, understaffed, chaos. What would the risk be for hospitalised patients not yet infected with SARS-CoV2 in those days?