Ending medical reversal : improving outcomes, saving lives /
Prasad, Vinayak K., 1982-
Ending medical reversal : improving outcomes, saving lives / Vinayak K. Prasad and Adam S. Cifu. - vii, 264 pages : charts ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
What is medical reversal? -- Subjective outcomes : why feeling better is often misleading -- Surrogate outcomes -- Screening tests -- System failure -- Finding flawed therapies on our own -- The frequency of medical reversal -- The harms of medical reversal : today's patients, tomorrow's patients and the healthcare field -- A primer in evidence based medicine : what is evidence in medicine? -- What really got you better : when evidence gets complicated -- Scientific progress, revolution, and medical reversal -- Sources of flawed data -- Why are we so attracted to flawed therapies? -- Medical education : a very good place to start -- Academic medicine -- Reforming the system : the burden of proof and nudging our way past reversal -- How not to become a victim of reversal -- Beyond dogma : when randomized trials are unnecessary.
9781421417721 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1421417723 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2014049513
0
Medical care.
0
Therapeutics.
0
Clinical trials.
Evidence-based medicine.
R733 / .P73 2015
615.5
W 84.41
Ending medical reversal : improving outcomes, saving lives / Vinayak K. Prasad and Adam S. Cifu. - vii, 264 pages : charts ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
What is medical reversal? -- Subjective outcomes : why feeling better is often misleading -- Surrogate outcomes -- Screening tests -- System failure -- Finding flawed therapies on our own -- The frequency of medical reversal -- The harms of medical reversal : today's patients, tomorrow's patients and the healthcare field -- A primer in evidence based medicine : what is evidence in medicine? -- What really got you better : when evidence gets complicated -- Scientific progress, revolution, and medical reversal -- Sources of flawed data -- Why are we so attracted to flawed therapies? -- Medical education : a very good place to start -- Academic medicine -- Reforming the system : the burden of proof and nudging our way past reversal -- How not to become a victim of reversal -- Beyond dogma : when randomized trials are unnecessary.
9781421417721 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1421417723 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2014049513
0
Medical care.
0
Therapeutics.
0
Clinical trials.
Evidence-based medicine.
R733 / .P73 2015
615.5
W 84.41