FLOW got published and nobody in here is talking about eGFR slope
The title is the argument: FLOW got published and nobody in here is talking about eGFR slope. Here is the rest of it. Intention-to-treat analyses everybody randomised regardless of what they did afterwards. Completer analyses only those who finished. The second is systematically more flattering and both are…
The registered protocol is public. Comparing the registered primary endpoint with the reported one is a two-minute check and it is how outcome switching gets caught.
This. Intention-to-treat versus completer analysis routinely moves the headline by several points.
discontinuation rate is a result, not a footnote
the confidence interval is the finding, the point estimate is the headline
FLOW was kidney outcomes and it is the one nobody quotes
Careful with that mean. The distribution around it was wide enough that it describes very few individual participants.
Careful with that mean.
Disagreeing with this line: that is a relative reduction and the absolute numbers are considerably less dramatic.