Ending medical reversal : improving outcomes, saving lives / Vinayak K. Prasad and Adam S. Cifu.

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.