Once medical treatments have been dubbed ‘standards of care’ they tend to persist regardless of their efficacy. Preventing untested practices from becoming standard care seems simple – just test them first. But even when studies are conducted early on, what they actually measure can be part of the problem. Because it’s simpler and faster, researchers often look at ‘surrogate outcomes’, not actual end points which has created hundreds of medical practices with unknown effectiveness at best. …read more
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