TY  - BOOK
AU  - Prasad,Vinayak K.
AU  - Cifu,Adam S.
TI  - Ending medical reversal: improving outcomes, saving lives 
SN  - 9781421417721 (hardcover : alk. paper)
AV  - R733 .P73 2015
U1  - 615.5 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - 0
KW  - Medical care
KW  - Therapeutics
KW  - Clinical trials
KW  - Evidence-based medicine
N1  - 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
ER  -