There has been a lot of debate recently about the promise of real world data - the routine (observational) data collected on patients eg  treatments received, clinical outcomes etc – for estimating treatment effects. But can they deliver? 1/9 #MethodologyMonday #123

❓ In people with HIV, is using two different rapid tests together ('parallel testing') to diagnose TB more accurate than using only one? An 'incremental' accuracy question: few Cochrane Reviews have yet addressed such questions. Adult review: shorturl.at/r9CUG Child review: shorturl.at/nSosK

The Evidence Synthesis and Meta-Analysis in R Conference (ESMARConf) is back! It will be held June 11th to the 13th, 2025: esmarconf.org/2025/ Recordings of the talks and workshops from previous years can be found here: esmarconf.org/recordings/ #ESMARConf #MetaAnalysis #EvidenceSynthesis #RStats

After two years of trying to avoid this discussion, I just necroed *that thread* on datamethods (discourse.datamethods.org/t/should-one...) in order to share an excellent preprint by philosopher Veli-Pekka Parkkinen (philsci-archive.pitt.edu/24785/1/efme...)

Two angels discussing the basics of treatment effects. (ICYMI) statsepi.substack.com/p/a-conversa...

Nice write up of our study applying potential trustworthiness checks to RCTs in 50 Cochrane Reviews in Nature by @richvn.bsky.social : www.nature.com/articles/d41...