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Published in: Critical Care 1/2009

01-02-2009 | Letter

Type II errors in 'Nurses' prediction of volume status after aneurismal subarachnoid hemorrhage: a prospective cohort study'

Author: Francis C Dane

Published in: Critical Care | Issue 1/2009

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Hoff and colleagues have conducted what could have been an important study regarding nurses' abilities to predict volemic status among patients [1]. Unfortunately, they collected and analyzed their data in a manner inconsistent with accepted statistical procedures. Hoff and colleagues did not incorporate the extent to which the observations for each patient, as well as from each nurse, were correlated. Their conclusions are not appropriate to their data; indeed, their procedures make any reasonable conclusions impossible. …
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Hoff RG, Rinkel GJE, Verweij BH, Algra A, Kalkman CJ: Nurses' prediction of volume status after aneurismal subarachnoid hemorrhage: a prospective cohort study. Crit Care 2008, 12: R153. 10.1186/cc7142PubMedCentralCrossRefPubMed
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Witte RS, Witte JS: Statistics. 8th edition. New York: John Wiley & Sons; 2006.
Metadata
Title
Type II errors in 'Nurses' prediction of volume status after aneurismal subarachnoid hemorrhage: a prospective cohort study'
Author
Francis C Dane
Publication date
01-02-2009
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Critical Care / Issue 1/2009
Electronic ISSN: 1364-8535
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/cc7705

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