Evidence-based medicine and bias: the truth about common therapies and clinical trials
Evidence-based medicine is a term that attendings like to pepper into their teaching rounds, and medical students like to conspicuously incorporate into their assessment and plan. There is so much clinical trial data out there that it is impossible to stay up to date on the most recent guidelines or the newest landmark trial that all of our time goes into scrutinizing the results. However, we rarely delve into the …