Ending medical reversal : improving outcomes, saving lives / Vinayak K. Prasad, MD, MPH, Adam S. Cifu, MD.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press [2015]Description: viii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781421417721 (hardback)
- 9781421417721 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 1421417723 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 615.5 23
- R733
- 2015 I-247
- W 84.41
- Also issued online.
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Second 'E' in 'reversal' in the title is printed back to front.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-256) 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.
Also issued online.
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