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Yes, but they incorrectly called it all-cause mortality under Findings. "Mortality" on it's own would be fine. "Mortality from other causes" would be better.
by a_cardboard_box 10mo ago
Yes, but they incorrectly called it all-cause mortality under Findings. "Mortality" on it's own would be fine. "Mortality from other causes" would be better.
- disgruntledphd2 10mo agoIt's a term of art. The audience for this paper would understand, rather like many denizens of HN know what TDD is.
- a_cardboard_box 10mo agoThe paper doesn't even use it consistently. At first it uses "all-cause mortality" to mean "all causes except COVID", and then in the results section it uses the same phrase to mean "all causes including COVID". The whole purpose of terms of art is to increase the specificity of language, but they're not doing that here. Their usage of the term is confusing. Edit: I'm wrong. I could have sworn it said that the groups had similar all-cause mortality, but it doesn't.
- Timon3 10mo agoWhere do you see them using "all-cause mortality" to mean "all causes except COVID" in the beginning? I skimmed over all uses of the term before the "Results" chapter, none of them seem to exclude COVID deaths?