Dr.NateNeph said:Order of operations matters more than any single choice here: establish a baseline, change one thing, wait long enough for it to express itself, then…
No disagreement, though the timescale matters more than the mechanism here. Most of what looks like a difference in kind turns out to be a difference in how long somebody waited.
If somebody has the primary source to hand I would rather cite it than paraphrase it.
Dr.KarenChen said:Liver ultrasound comparison for liver and MASH: my hepatologist ordered serial ultrasounds to track NAFLD regression.
Thank you for spelling out the reasoning rather than just the conclusion. Adding it to my notes with a link back to this thread.
Dr.NateNeph said:Order of operations matters more than any single choice here: establish a baseline, change one thing, wait long enough for it to express itself, then…
Worth saying that the confident version of this is more useful to the person writing it than to the person reading it.
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Shop Reference StandardsAdding the numbers, since they settle part of this. Practical: whatever you change, write down the date and the reason. In three months the reason is what you will have forgotten, and the reason is what makes the record worth having.