Ending medical reversal
Subtitle: improving outcomes, saving lives
By: Vinayak K. Prasad, MD, MPH, Adam S. Cifu, MD
Contributors: Cifu, Adam S., author
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781421417721
Subjects: Medical care; Therapeutics; Clinical trials
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What is medical reversal?; title: Subjective outcomes : why feeling better is often misleading; title: Surrogate outcomes; title: Screening tests; title: System failure; title: Finding flawed therapies on our own; title: The frequency of medical reversal; title: The harms of medical reversal : today's patients, tomorrow's patients and the healthcare field; title: A primer in evidence based medicine : what is evidence in medicine?; title: What really made you better : when evidence gets complicated; title: Scientific progress, revolution, and medical reversal; title: Sources of flawed data; title: Why are we so attracted to flawed therapies?; title: Medical education : a very good place to start; title: Academic medicine; title: Reforming the system : the burden of proof and nudging our way past reversal; title: How not to become a victim of reversal; title: Beyond dogma : when randomized trials are unnecessary.