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Expressing prognosis with life tables

In this video, you will learn how to express prognosis with the help of life tables. It’s essential to understand these concepts when learning about Kaplan-Meier curves later on. Need some background on this concept? Watch our video on ways to express prognosis.
18th Nov 2016 • 5m read

Ways to express prognosis—the basics

Imagine the following situation: you read a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine and see that disease prognosis has gone up for a certain disease.
11th Nov 2016 • 3m read

Positive predictive value—the role of specificity

In this short video, you’ll learn how sensitivity and specificity influence the positive predictive value and why specificity has a much greater impact.
6th Nov 2016 • 2m read

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

The Medmastery Show - Episode #13: Dan Siegel | Become a great clinician by following his valuable advice

Today's guest is Dr Dan Siegel. Today's interview will give you inspiration and energy, plus many nuggets of wisdom that you can apply and use in your own life.
10th Oct 2016 • 2m 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 Medmastery Show - Episode #12: Judson Brewer | Mindfulness in medicine

In this interview, Judson explains how we can use mindfulness for ourselves and our patients to help us become happier and more fulfilled in our jobs and daily lives.
25th Aug 2016 • 2m 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