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HEALTH CARE AND COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS STUDIES: ?The FDA used the lightest possible statistical ?

By Glenn Reynolds

HEALTH CARE AND COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS STUDIES: “The FDA used the lightest possible statistical test on a pretty important medication for millions of asthmatics. Do you want Medicare denying your mother a possibly effective treatment for her otherwise terminal cancer with the same kind of test?”

My prediction: Soon it won’t be the same kind of test. It’ll be one that’s deliberately cooked to produce the results that save money. Though there’s some suggestion that in this case, the test was deliberately cooked to produce the result the EPA wanted.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on May 21, 2009 (boomark / email).