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Patients in the study are randomly assigned to the early group or the late group. They don't get to schedule their own appointments for whatever time of day the
by kelnos 1y ago
Patients in the study are randomly assigned to the early group or the late group. They don't get to schedule their own appointments for whatever time of day they want.
- tines 1y agoHow does this control for the "alert nurses" variable? In that case, patients would do better in the morning, regardless of the patient.
- anigbrowl 1y agoWhy would you assume nurses are scheduled on a 9-5 basis?
- simmerup 1y agoWhy do you think you're going to poke holes in a research article when you've clearly only just heard of the concept and havent even read the article
- tines 1y agoIf I thought I could poke holes in the research, I wouldn't be posting on HN. I'm asking questions to learn because obviously I don't understand :)
- d_tr 1y agoBased on these graphs and the differences in outcomes they show, you are not talking about "alert vs less alert" nurses but about "nurses doing their job vs nurses basically slowly killing dozens of patients".