Ending medical reversal : improving outcomes, saving lives / Vinayak K. Prasad, Adam S. Cifu.
| Author/creator | Prasad, Vinayak K., 1982- author. |
| Other author | Cifu, Adam S., author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2015] |
| Description | viii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| 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 made 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2014049513 |
| ISBN | 9781421417721 hardcover alkaline paper |
| ISBN | 1421417723 hardcover alkaline paper |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| Standard identifier# | 99964785347 |
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