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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press [2015]Description: viii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781421417721 (hardback)
  • 9781421417721 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 1421417723 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 615.5 23
LOC classification:
  • R733
NLM classification:
  • 2015 I-247
  • W 84.41
Available additional physical forms:
  • Also issued online.
Contents:
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.
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4 Week Loan Midland Regional Hospital Library Tullamore Midland Regional Hospital Library Tullamore Loan collection MRH Tullamore 615.5 PRA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available TT16598
4 Week Loan Our Lady’s Hospital Library, Navan Our Lady’s Hospital Library, Navan Book 615.5 PRA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available NA20004
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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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