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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 evidence based medicine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label evidence based medicine. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Evolution Based Medicine: A Philosophical Framework for Understanding Why Things Don't Work

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An afternoon session at the ATS meeting this year about "de-adoption" of therapies which have been shown to be ineffective was...
Monday, April 21, 2014

Stowaway and Accidental Empiricist Humbles Physiological Theorists: The Boy in the Wheel Well

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Kessler Peak in the Wasatch:  10,400 feet Several years ago, I posted about empirical confirmation of West's theoretical blood ga...
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Monday, January 14, 2013

Hemoglobin In Limbo: How Low Can [should] It Go?

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In this post about transfusion thresholds in elderly patients undergoing surgery for hip fracture , I indulged in a rant about the irresi...
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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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