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News from AllTrials.net
So I got an email from the folks from alltrials.net on their progress. I explained the initiative in an earlier post in which I also told that I as well as the Dutch Epidemiological Society (VVE)...
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Mendeley bought by elsevier – good or bad?
(image via litroost) I use Mendeley (paid subscription) to keep track of my literature and as a reference manager etc. I even use it as my main method to share my publication on the internet (see also...
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How science goes wrong? we’re improving!
Fraud, shoddy and sloppy science, conflicts of interest… Who said a science career is boring? When I write on these topics I sometimes have the feeling that I am doing science more harm than good; am...
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The professor as an entrepeneur
picture: onderzoeksredactie.nl Today, I’ve read a long read from the onderzoekdsredactie, which is a Dutch initiative for high quality research journalism. In this article they present their results...
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Changing stroke incidence and prevalence
Lower changing incidences of disease over time do not necessarily mean that the number of patients in care also goes down, as the prevalence of the disease is a function of incidence and mortality....
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New article: Causal Inference in Law: An Epidemiological Perspective
source:ejrr Finally, it is here. The article I wrote together with WdH, MZ and RM was published in the European Journal of Risk and Regulation last week. And boy, did it take time! This whole project,...
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Starting a research group: some thoughts for a new paper
It has been 18 months since I started in Berlin to start at the CSB to take over the lead of the clinical epidemiology research group. Recently, the ISTH early career taskforce have contacted me...
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Does d-dimer really improve DVT prediction in stroke?
elsevier.com Good question, and even though thromboprofylaxis is already given according to guidelines in some countries, I can see the added value of a good discriminating prediction rule. Especially...
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How to set up a research group
A couple of weeks ago I wrote down some thoughts I had while writing a paper for the JTH series on Early Career Researchers. I was asked to write how one sets up a research group, and the four points I...
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The paradox of the BMI paradox
I had the honor to be invited to the PHYSBE research group in Gothenburg, Sweden. I got to talk about the paradox of the BMI paradox. In the announcement abstract I wrote: “The paradox of the BMI...
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Associate editor at BMC Thrombosis Journal
source: https://goo.gl/CS2XtJ In the week just before Christmas, HtC approached me by asking whether or not I would like to join the editorial board of BMC Thrombosis Journal as an Associate Editor....
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FVIII, Protein C and the Risk of Arterial Thrombosis: More than the Sum of...
source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGMRLLySc4w Peer review is not a pissing contest. Peer reviewing is not about findings the smallest of errors and delay publication because of it. Peer review...
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Joining the PLOS Biology editorial board
plos.org I am happy and honored that I can share that I am going to be part of the PLOS Biology editorial board. PLOS Biology has a special model for their editorial duties, with the core of the work...
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Results dissemination from clinical trials conducted at German university...
My interests are broader than stroke, as you can see my tweets as well as my publications. I am interested in how the medical scientific enterprise works – and more importantly how it can be improved....
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REWARD | EQUATOR Conference 2020 in Berlin
https://www.reward-equator-conference-2020.com Almost 5 years ago something interesting happened in Edinburgh. REWARD and EQUATOR teamed up and organized a joint conference on “Increasing value and...
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Pre-print servers are a place to place share your academic work before actual peer review and subsequent publication. They are not so new completely new to academia, as many different disciplines have...
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The post COVID-19 Functional Status – an update
A binary outcome is the standard practice in most clinical research and as such, regression models like the binary logistic and the Cox proportional hazards are among the most used in the literature....
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