Guest guest Posted April 3, 2010 Report Share Posted April 3, 2010 I want to chime in on the statistics issue. We have all attended presentations where we are shown those infamous Kaplan-Meier curves, the curves that show percentage of survival against time, for any number of situations. Personally, I dislike these curves intensely, and have so stated. Those curves should be tools that the medical community use among themselves. There is no reason to tell a patient that as a median, with his particular condition, he has 3.2 years before he has a 50% chance of being gone. Nothing more than anxiety is produced, no useful knowledge. The one difference might be the provision of information that one is so sick that they better put their affairs in order. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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