Seven alternatives to evidence based medicine

摘要: Clinical decisions should, as far possible, be evidence based. So runs the current clinical dogma. 1 2 We are urged to lump all relevant randomised controlled trials into one giant meta-analysis and come out with a combined odds ratio for decisions. Physicians, surgeons, nurses doing it3–5; soon even lawyers will using based practice.6 But what if there is no on which base decision? We, two humble clinicians ever ready advice guidance, asked our colleagues they would …