Medical Evidence Blog

This is discussion forum for physicians, researchers, and other healthcare professionals interested in the epistemology of medical knowledge, the limitations of the evidence, how clinical trials evidence is generated, disseminated, and incorporated into clinical practice, how the evidence should optimally be incorporated into practice, and what the value of the evidence is to science, individual patients, and society.

Showing posts with label decision making. Show all posts
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Sunday, May 22, 2022

Common Things Are Common, But What is Common? Operationalizing The Axiom

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"Prevalence [sic: incidence] is to the diagnostic process as gravity is to the solar system: it has the power of a physical law." ...
Thursday, April 6, 2017

Why Most True Research Findings Are Useless

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In his provocative essay in PLOS Medicine  over a decade ago, Ioannidis argued that most published research findings are false, owing to ...
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Wednesday, June 8, 2016

Once Bitten, Twice Try: Failed Trials of Extubation

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“When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that so...
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Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Much Ado About Nothing? The Relevance of New Sepsis Definitions for Clinical Care Versus Research

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What's in a name?  That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet. - Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet Act II Scene I...
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Wednesday, February 10, 2016

A Focus on Fees: Why I Practice Evidence Based Medicine Like I Invest for Retirement

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He is the best physician who knows the worthlessness of the most medicines."  - Ben Franklin This blog has been highly critical of...
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Professor of Medicine, University of Utah. Former affiliations: Outside Hospital x 7.5 years; Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University; Fellowship & MPH: Johns Hopkins Hospital & Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD; Residency: The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center; MD: The Ohio State University; BA, Spanish: Miami University, Ohio. All views are my own with NO institutional endorsement.
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