Category: Follow the Science
The Wise Practitioner vs the Influencer Clinician
Save as PDFHow do we, as clinicians, not only choose technologies and treatments for our practices but also decide them for our patients? If you’ve read any of the…
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The Most Important Research Trial Metric for Clinical Practice
Save as PDFI love key performance indicators (KPIs). Whether it’s in my practice, my finances, or my running. I believe the Number Needed to Treat (NNT) is the…
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Don’t Trust Your Gut: Part 3: The Influence of the Pharmaceutical Industry on Clinical Decision-Making
Save as PDFin Part 3, we turn our focus to another, often overlooked, factor that influences clinical decision-making: the thorny topic of the pharmaceutical…
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Don’t Trust Your Gut – Part 2
Save as PDFMost of us want to be thoroughly research-based in our decisions for patients. However, if we reflected on our decision-making process, we would likely…
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Don’t Trust Your Gut – Part 1
Save as PDFIn the context of our topic of evidence-based medicine, are our experiences and expert opinions a reliable source of evidence? If not, why not? If so, how much should we rely on experience and opinion (whether ours or others) to guide our clinical decision-making?
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What Evidence Based Medicine is Not: Part 2
Save as PDFHow do we, as busy clinicians in the trenches of patient care, appraise and apply EBM to our practice? If you’ve read all that I’ve written on this topic…
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What Evidence Based Medicine is Not: Part 1
Save as PDFDeciding what something is not is just as important as knowing what something is Pertinent negatives in clinical practice help make deductive clinical…
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What is the Best Evidence?
Save as PDFImagine this: you are in your office scrolling through your unread emails and an email catches your eye with the subject line “kale consumption…
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Clinical Decision Making is Difficult
Save as PDFHow do we make good decisions for our patients? How do we decide which diagnosis is most appropriate? How do we decide which treatment plan provides the best possible outcome? More fundamentally, how do we decide while uncertain?
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