Decisions 38-39: keep the three aims

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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 | 36 | **The NCE analysis is adjusted for early-PVI status.** The unadjusted version goes in the supplement. | Otherwise NCE ← style → PVI → MALE flags a real effect of PVI. |
 | 37 | **Patient–physician sorting is not in the main grid.** It becomes one sensitivity world if time allows. | Scope. |
 | — | **Fact (not a decision):** interim calibration target for all-cause mortality is about 35% at 5 years (Sigvant 2018 *EJVES*, PMID 29478910: 10-year mortality in IC 63%). To be replaced by the 5-year mortality in the authors' own Medicare cohort. | No published 5-year all-cause figure for Medicare claudicants was found. |
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+## Round 8: scope (2026-10-27)
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+| 38 | **No data-quality aim.** The paper keeps the three aims of the plan. Claims data problems such as time-zero misdating, physician attribution, laterality and Medicare Advantage switching are not modelled. | Focus. Papers 1 and 2 of `tte-papers` have stopped. |
+| 39 | **Paper 1's comparison of adjustment methods and covariate vibration stay out** (see D26). | This paper is about which question each design answers. |