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Positive predictive value—the role of prevalence

In today’s lesson, I’ll explain what positive and negative predictive values are, why they are useful, and how the positive predictive value is influenced by disease prevalence.
2nd Nov 2016 • 4m read

Sensitivity and specificity taken to the next level

In this video, we’ll be taking your expertise of sensitivity and specificity one step further.
15th Sep 2016 • 2m read

Test sensitivity and specificity made easy

Today we are going to cover test sensitivity and specificity in a non-boring way. That's a promise!
7th Sep 2016 • 3m read

The role of adjustment in age confounding

Want to know how age adjustment works? Watch this short video and become a masterful interpreter of medical literature!
16th Aug 2016 • 2m read

The importance of age confounding in medical literature

Age is usually the most important confounder in clinical studies. This short video will explain what age confounding is and how to spot it if it’s present.
4th Aug 2016 • 3m read

Mortality rates—the nuts and bolts

Understanding mortality rates is crucial if you want to understand and interpret medical literature. In this 6-minute video, you’ll learn the nuts and bolts of mortality rates.
30th Jul 2016 • 5m read

Incidence and prevalence—what you really need to know

If you want to understand medical literature, you absolutely need to understand the difference between incidence and prevalence and what they have to do with one another.
24th Jul 2016 • 4m read

Narrow complex tachycardias

In this video, you will learn about narrow complex tachycardias. You will learn why they are narrow, what the differential diagnosis is, and much, much more.
17th Jun 2016 • 8m read

Broad complex tachycardias

Broad complex tachycardias are potentially life-threatening. Every clinician taking care of cardiac patients should be able to diagnose them.
17th Jun 2016 • 5m read

Image intensifier basics and nomenclature (sneak preview #3)

Coronary angiographic views and terms like LAO cranial or RAO caudal can sometimes be pretty confusing, but they are not that difficult after all. This short video will bring you up to speed on image intensifier basics.
23rd Nov 2015 • 4m read