Modeling
3 pieces tagged Modeling.
The Dismal Disease: Temozolomide and the Interaction of Evidence
Evidence interacts. To understand the evidence base for an intervention we must look not only at individual studies, but the relationships between them.
Stop Fighting, You're Making Me SAD
Does medical science have to be adversarial to make progress? Does progress in patient care consist of weeding out treatments which are ineffective and replacing existing therapies with new and better alternatives?
An Honest Mess
Evidence-Based Medicine is an attempt to simplify and streamline a complex reality into a more manageable structure. Reflective EBM proponents know that matters are very complicated. But they understand that practitioners have very limited time (and abilities) to deal with...