Evidence-Based Medicine. What, When and Why to Take

General practitioner Cyril Galankin, fascinated by modern healthcare challenges and medical statistics, will reveal all the secrets of evidence-based medicine!

Evidence-based medicine is a term that’s widely known—even very widely. And everything widely known, once it goes into the people, is filled with new, sometimes unexpected meanings.

Some people are sure that evidence-based medicine is a legal term. Others think that all official medicine in general is evidence-based—which isn’t quite correct. Thirds know from reliable sources that no “evidence-based medicine” actually exists; it’s a fiction invented by pharmaceutical corporations to promote their products. There are many versions...

In fact, evidence-based medicine isn’t an industry and isn’t a fabrication—it’s an approach, or, if you like, a principle. According to this principle, everything used for preventive, therapeutic, and diagnostic purposes must be effective and safe—and both qualities must be confirmed with reliable evidence. Evidence-based medicine is medicine based on evidence.

This book will help you understand both the concept of evidence-based medicine and which research methods make it possible to prove a treatment or a drug’s effectiveness. Because even in traditional, official, fully scientific medicine, there are plenty of problems with confirming effectiveness and safety.

A proper clinical trial must be transparent and fully objective. These two pillars are what evidence-based medicine rests on. And these pillars are supported by a foundation called “the experiment.”