Normally I publish a new post for each new paper that we publish. But with COVID-19, normal does not really work anymore. But i don’t want to completely throw my normal workflow overboard. Therefore, a quick update on a couple of publications, all in one blogpost, yet without a common denominator:
Stachulski, F., Siegerink, B. and Bösel, J. (2020) ‘Dying in the Neurointensive Care Unit After Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Therapy: Associations of Advance Directives and Health-Care Proxies With Timing and Treatment Intensity’, Journal of Intensive Care Medicine A paper about the role of advanced directives and treatment in the neurointensive care unit. Not normally the topic I publish about, as the severity of disease in these patients is luckily not what we normally see in stroke patients.
Impact of COPD and anemia on motor and cognitive performance in the general older population: results from the English longitudinal study of ageing. This paper makes use of the ELSA study – an open-access database – and hinges on the idea that sometimes two risk factors only lead to the progression of disease/symptoms if they work jointly. This idea behind interaction is often “tested” with a simple statistical interaction model. There are many reasons why this is not the best thing to do, so we also looked at biological (or additive interaction).
Thrombo-Inflammation in Cardiovascular Disease: An Expert Consensus Document from the Third Maastricht Consensus Conference on Thrombosis. This is a hefty paper, with just as many authors as pages it seems. But this is not a normal paper – it is the consensus statement of the thrombosis meeting last year in Maastricht. I really liked that meeting, not only because I got to see old friends, but also because of a number of ideas and papers were the product of this meeting. This paper is, of course, one of them. But after this one, some papers on the development of an ordinal outcome for functional status after venous thrombosis. But they will be part of a later blog post.
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