Which Treatment Is Best? Spoof or Proof?
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Which Treatment Is Best? Spoof or Proof?

  1. 164 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Which Treatment Is Best? Spoof or Proof?

About this book

A young woman cries, "Please don't let me die!" Has she received the best treatment? What is the best treatment? How do we know? Life-threatening disease prompts these questions in everyone. Which Treatment Is Best? Spoof or Proof? explains the best scientific evidence for any treatment—the randomized controlled trial. This book begins with rotten humors as the source of all diseases. The reader is guided through serious attempts in history to treat disease, but which now seem amusing. The story ends with the randomized controlled trial and how to interpret it. The text will help students and clinicians understand this universal language of clinical research worldwide.

Key Features

  • Describes the development of the randomized, controlled trial as the gold standard of proof
  • Unravels the meaning of "randomized," "double-blind," and "p-values" in a simplified manner for students and clinicians
  • Contains timeless information on how medical evidence can be understood

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Information

Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2023
eBook ISBN
9781000827811
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Internal Medicine & Diagnosis

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Author
  9. Abbreviations
  10. 1 Early Egyptian Medicine
  11. 2 Hippocrates, Galen, and the Humoral Theory
  12. 3 Clay Ears and Asclepian Medicine
  13. 4 Authority as Proof
  14. 5 Andreas Vesalius and Keen Observation
  15. 6 William Harvey Counts Heartbeats
  16. 7 Smallpox, Edward Jenner, and Numbers
  17. 8 Antony Van Leeuwenhoek and the Microscope
  18. 9 Louis Pasteur, Anthrax, and Rabies
  19. 10 Wilhelm Roentgen, X-rays, and Bullets
  20. 11 Ether, William Morton, and a Yankee Dodge
  21. 12 Tuberculosis, Streptomycin, and Robert Koch
  22. 13 Placebo or the I Feel Better Pill
  23. 14 John Brinkley and Goat Gland Transplantation
  24. 15 Laetrile, Cyanide, and Ernst Krebs
  25. 16 Testimonials and Endorsements
  26. 17 Controlled Trials and Hidden Harm
  27. 18 Randomized Double-Blind Controlled Trials
  28. 19 Interpreting the Results of a Clinical Trial
  29. 20 The Gold Standard for Evidence-Based Medicine
  30. Index

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