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26/10/18
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Originally posted by litfuse
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I suppose we don't really know exactly what the process is and are just therefore guessing at its complexity.
I'm imagining a set of 1500 presumably anonymised patient records, which were prepared for the primary purpose of healing the patient and only secondarily to fit with our study.
These records will presume confirm whether pnuemonia, for example, was diagnosed after the "gold standard", but perhaps there are other symptoms or ailments which are also recorded (asthma, broncholitis etc etc) and there may even be a level of said ailments (e.g. chronic, mild etc etc).
All of these factors then need to be rationalised against the RAP cough signatures recorded and it may not be as simple as a binary yes/no. Lets also not forget that the tests record both positive and negative results, which adds another level of complexity.
I may well be wrong on this so please feel feel to disagree.
All this boils down to an idea that this is not a delay for negative reasons, its just the time needed to properly analyse our results.
That being said, it would have been great if the management had flagged this in advance to allay all our worries, particularly after last time.
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I think a lot of people are making assumptions to when they actually received the data. Maybe they did not receive it until sometime yesterday or even today.
Maybe the trading halt was done last Friday since TK was in the US and he did not want to appear to have early access to the information.