Complicating the issue to the point where the majority of the audience
cannot even follow the argument is not good communication. At the end of the
day we have to live in the real world with real people. In my experience
communicating a simple message is usually more helpful.
Paul Griffiths
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From: TICKNER TREVOR (RM1) Norfolk and Norwich NHS Trust
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Sent: 14 December 2001 14:55
To: 'Griffiths Paul (RTF) NHCT'
Subject: RE: A challenge for interpretive comments
I hope it is not a competition and certainly not one in statistics.
I became alarmed when I learned that the gold standards against which we
judge ourselves were at best brass.
One of the best attributes of clinical chemists is that they are prepared to
test themselves against standards that are as objective as they can be made.
The thought of 'touchy-feely' science frightens me.
Just as there are those concerned with improving and extending chemical
analyses there are challenges in improving interpretation. Histopathologists
have approached this by looking for concerted opinions but with no attempt
to correlate those with actual clinical outcomes.
I hope that we, in clinical chemistry, are prepared to try to do better.
Best wishes,
Trevor Tickner
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Griffiths Paul (RTF) NHCT
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> Sent: 14 December 2001 14:22
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> Subject: A challenge for interpretive comments
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> If this is a competition to see who claims to understand the most
> complicated statistics, then I declare myself a loser !!!
>
> Paul Griffiths
> Consultant Biochemist
> Wansbeck General Hospital
>
>
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