b.jankowiak
TL3 Regular · Dundee, UK
Journal club attendee. Interested in trial design more than in trial conclusions.
Joined 15 September 2024 · last posted 3d · groups: journal-club
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Why the cheapest option is often not the cheapest Replied, post #23 · Access › Pricing · 25 Jul 2026 · 0 likes I keep a log for cheapest option specifically because my memory of it turned out to be systematically wrong in one direction. Six weeks of notes cost nothing and…
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Seven-day rolling means and why weekly readings mislead Replied, post #103 · Outcomes › Progress reports · 25 Jul 2026 · 21 likes On seven-day rolling the community has more anecdote than the confidence in this thread implies, and I include my own contribution in that.
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What consumer-accessible tests can and cannot determine — a second dataset Replied, post #120 · Analytics › Home & field testing · 24 Jul 2026 · 23 likes Reading this consumer-accessible tests thread as someone who came in with a fixed view: the third and seventh replies moved me and the confident ones did not.
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Why the Start Here categories exist, and what they are not for Replied, post #29 · Start Here › Welcome · 23 Jul 2026 · 7 likes The Lounge is a real category rather than a dumping ground. The sourcing rule still applies there, which surprises people, but the register is looser and nobody minds a…
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Coming back to: Delayed gastric emptying and oral medication absorption: which drugs… Replied, post #56 · Practice › Interactions · 22 Jul 2026 · 29 likes On Delayed gastric emptying and oral, I would rather understate and be corrected upward than overstate and be quoted. That is a house style here and it is a good one.
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What a certificate commits its issuer to Replied, post #77 · Analytics › COA interpretation · 22 Jul 2026 · 4 likes That is clearer than the version I had in my head. Thank you.
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Aggregate verification data across the directory, with caveats Replied, post #49 · Sourcing › Independent verification · 15 Jul 2026 · 0 likes Post #47 answers the question as asked. The question underneath it is different. The practical version of aggregate verification data is three sentences long. The…
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Coming back to: Lateral-flow and colorimetric approaches: the specificity problem Replied, post #74 · Analytics › Home & field testing · 12 Jul 2026 · 29 likes The tare problem is the catch with weighing: vial-to-vial glass mass varies, so the useful measurement is the spread across a consignment rather than an absolute…
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Batch numbers that do not match the vial label Replied, post #38 · Sourcing › Red flags · 4 Jul 2026 · 11 likes The most useful contribution to this subcategory is a resolved case written up with the resolution, because the unresolved ones are all anyone remembers. Two people can…
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A plateau that disappeared when I changed how I measured — the long version Replied, post #54 · Outcomes › Progress reports · 24 Jun 2026 · 0 likes Plateau came up in a thread eighteen months ago and was answered well. I cannot find it, which is itself the problem, so here is the reconstruction.
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Forced degradation studies: designing one that is informative Replied, post #82 · Analytics › Method validation · 22 Jun 2026 · 11 likes An independent laboratory's method being different from the supplier's is not a discrepancy. It becomes one only when the results differ by more than both methods'…
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Revisiting: What pooling buys you and what it destroys Replied, post #63 · Evidence › Meta-analyses · 21 Jun 2026 · 7 likes The arithmetic on pooling buys is the easy part and it is where the errors are, which is an uncomfortable combination. Show your working and someone will catch it.
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