Research

'It's not about the date and how late you are, it is about the topic and how important that is.

So yes I am late to the party, and it would count anymore for anything, seeming some examples of emotionial decisions ignoring hard date last week raised the question again:

@Abundance.Tribe's BiWeekly Question - How Important Is Research To ME And What Do I Consider Are The Most Important Things In Life, That We Should Be Researching About?

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So how research is important to me on a daily basis you ask? Well, I think I have written it here already a thousand times that I work in healthcare. And if one place is the jungle of research and also filled with old habits which die hard, I guess it is my area.

'Why should I do it like that. I have done it a million times this way, and never have had a complication whatsoever'

I think this is the sentence I have heard elderly surgeons say over a millions times, when even the health guidelines write different. And it is true, maybe they haven't had any complication with it, but just the treatment turned out to be better. Food also has their 'new and improved' products every now and then right? To make things even more better?



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The whole feeling of, 'I think this is better' shouldn't count in medicine indeed. It should have have tests, and control groups and placebos. That is how research should work.

Group a has chemo therapy before surgery
Group b had surgery with no chemo therapy
Group c has surgery with chemo therapy afterwards

But most importantly. The patients from a group should fall in the same category. So a group in age, gender pre existing illnesses. The tumors should be in the same growth stage. The patients should be in any other clinical trials.

That is how studies should work, and with that data you can change lives. But you can imagine collecting that data takes a while, and needs a lot of different centres to also collaborate. And all of these centres should work in the same type of conditions. (not that one place gives antibiotics, and the other doesn't).

As you see...I jungle a lot working with clinical trials and data gets more and more important, because data will predict outcomes in the future. Especially in healthcare this is crucial.

But what about the exmaple you were talking about earlier which occured here in Holland then?

Ow yeah! That one. Well, the delta strain of the covid virus is taking over here this week, so positive tests raised from 1200 daily to 10.000 a week after. That is the issue.



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Now maybe as you know. Holland like electronic dance music. And we are good at it and it sells. We also have a crap load of festivals, which we also like and are good at it. Now we also did some studies collecting data called 'Fieldlab' which were already in the Spring, when covid was still super big.

What happened is that people had to test before, and test afterwards. In this way they could see how the virus spreaded amongst groups of people and data was collected from this. One of the conclusions was that in outdoor events the spread isn't that big. Outdoor air is an important thing.

Now with the rise of these cases last week nightclubs and bars were closed again after 00.00. I find this a logical measure given the fact that a big chunk of infections come from the nightlife and amongst youngsters. But also was deceided to ban big outdoor events. Events that have proven through the fieldab experiments that they are not the biggest risk.

It is for a reason that the job data analyst is so wanted at the moment. Every company wants to make decisions based on something. That is how it should be. So if you if research is important to me? I guess it is never important enough if you want to take something a step further.