Cardiology researchers Bob Harrington and Bobby Yeh discuss how to do better observational research and the controversial notion of making causal inferences from such data.

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Academic Cardiology and Social Media https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.118.004736

Bringing the Credibility Revolution to Observational Research and Cardiology https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.123.064645

Cardio Twitter: An Essential Tool for Staying Current https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/897512

Identification of Causal Effects Using Instrumental Variables https://doi.org/10.2307/2291629

Explaining Charter School Effectiveness https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.5.4.1

Methods of Public Health Research - Strengthening Causal Inference from Observational Data https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMp2113319

Publish or Perish and the Incentive for Quantity over Quality Research Papers https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/998417

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Bob Harrington, Erin Michos, and Brahmajee Nallamothu discuss how the publish or perish culture can lead to sloppy research and the need for alternative models to measure success in academic medicine.

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With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility

Big Data Research From the National Inpatient Sample https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.117.003846

Adherence to Methodological Standards in Research Using the National Inpatient Sample

https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2017.17653

Publish or Perish: Where are we heading?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24778659

The Kardashian Index of Cardiologists: Celebrities or Experts? https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2019.11.068

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Bob Harrington and Mike Gibson discuss two of the hottest topics in cardiology and medicine for 2023: a proposed alternative to the maintenance of certification process, and artificial intelligence.

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Cardiovascular Organizations Pursue New, Independent Medical Board

https://www.acc.org/About-ACC/Press-Releases/2023/09/21/15/02/Cardiovascular-Organizations-Pursue-New-Independent-Medical-Board

The National Board of Physicians and Surgeons

https://nbpas.org/

Level of Scientific Evidence Underlying the Current American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Clinical Practice Guidelines

https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.118.005293

Validation of a Speech Analysis Application to Detect Worsening Heart Failure Events in Ambulatory Heart Failure Patients https://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/?_ga=2.17782015.7532578.1693882428-1949139275.1663003561#!/10871/presentation/16568

A systematic review shows no performance benefit of machine learning over logistic regression for clinical prediction models

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2019.02.004

Recognizing a ruler instead of a cancer

https://menloml.com/2020/01/11/recognizing-a-ruler-instead-of-a-cancer/

The Geographic Bias in Medical AI Tools

https://hai.stanford.edu/news/geographic-bias-medical-ai-tools

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