| Ragnar 2005-05-18, 11:47 am |
| On 17 May 2005 18:25:32 -0700, "Dr. Leukoma" <drg@leukoma.com> wrote:
>Pauli. Don't believe everything you read in an abstract. If somebody
>concludes that pupil size is not significant, read the entire paper.
>Recently, I quoted the conclusions of a study involving Intacs and
>keratoconus. The study used a sample size of 13. One out of the
>thirteen resulted in a failure, and yet the study concluded that the
>treatment was not only efficacious, but safe. That is statistical
>insanity.
>
>I also read a study, published in The Lancet in 1999, involving
>thousands of patients wearing contact lenses. The study found that
>1/500 people who slept in their lenses developed infectious keratitis
>per year using old technology. OK, that's not good, but of those, less
>than 15% suffered any permanent detrimental effects to their vision.
>Yet, the study concluded that sleeping in lenses is unsafe. That is
>also statistical insanity.
>
>I am seeing more and more patients taking their refractive surgeons to
>court over halos and starbursts. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
>
>DrG
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