近日,美国知名医学期刊《美国医学会杂志》(JAMA)刊登了一篇十分吓人的论文。
这篇研究了美国纽约市5700名新冠肺炎住院患者的论文宣称,他们统计发现,使用呼吸机的患者,其死亡率高达88%!
结果,此事也很快被众多西方媒体报道,并震惊了舆论。
但不少看到了这篇论文的医学专家却指出,这个数字存在严重的误导。
下图,便是那篇宣称纽约市使用呼吸机的新冠肺炎患者死亡率高达88%的论文。
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这一令人震惊的数字,也很快被大量西方媒体报道,比如美国彭博社和英国的《独立报》。
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然而,在刊登了这篇论文的美国知名医学期刊《美国医学会杂志》(JAMA)的官方网站上,多名医学专家却表示这个数字存在严重的误导性,并要求期刊方面联系作者进行更正。
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原来,这些医学专家发现,这篇论文是将那些使用呼吸机后死亡或出院的病人进行了对比:其中出院的38人,死亡的282人,由此算出使用呼吸机的住院病人死亡率高达88%的数字(282/38+282)。
然而,该论文的样本中还有831名病人仍在住院并正在使用呼吸机进行治疗。但似乎是由于这800多名病人还没有出院或死亡,这篇论文的研究人员竟然没将他们统计进去,这才出现了那么高的死亡率数字。
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目前,《美国医学会杂志》已经更正了这一数字。其编辑人员也在论文的评论区留言感谢了医学专家们指出的错误。
更正后的论文在此处的最新表述为:在需要使用呼吸机的病人中,38人(3.3%)已经出院,282人死亡(24.5%),还有831人(72.2%)仍在住院。
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不过,在境外的社交平台推特上,一些医学人士仍对《美国医学会杂志》出现这样的疏漏感到不解……
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