Changes in Hospitalizations, Treatment Patterns, and Outcomes During Major Cardiovascular Meetings

To the Editor We read with interest the article by Jena et al,¹ and we commend them for their thoughtful analyses. Many readers will undoubtedly cite decreased mortality during cardiovascular meetings as the study’s key finding, but we favor a more conservative conclusion. The investigators set out to test the reasonable hypothesis that mortality would increase during meetings. For this reason, we believe a 1-sided statistical test would have been more appropriate for the primary analysis rather than the 2-sided test employed.² By negating their primary hypothesis, the authors showed that mortality did not increase during meetings, which we view as the study’s key finding.