Why do we continue to adopt medical practices based on pathophysiology alone when we should be insisting on clinical trials?

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 361-363

  Prasad, Vinay ^a   Ho, Nancy ^b  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE); SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

ANGIOPLASTY; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; BONE DESTRUCTION; CANCER CELL; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARDIOLOGIST; CASE STUDY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; FOLLOW UP; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; ITALY; MECHANICAL STRESS; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NERVE ENDING; NOTE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCUTANEOUS VERTEBROPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); UNITED STATES; VASCULAR SURGEON; VEIN INSUFFICIENCY;

EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STANDARD OF CARE; TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84896824626     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2013.11.009     Document Type: Note

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