Recommendations
2 pieces tagged Recommendations.
The Positivity Machine: "Evidence-Based Alternative Medicine" and Grades of Recommendation
In his beat-poem Storm, the musician and comedian Tim Minchin lays out an apparent paradox. By his criteria, there can never be evidence-based alternative medicine. As soon as there’s evidence that a treatment works, it joins scientific medicine. Minchin goes on to list...
Strength of Recommendation - the Rudner Problem
Strength of Recommendation hierarchies such as SORT and GRADE go a step further than your standard hierarchy of evidence. Standard hierarchies tend to rank or rate the evidence provided by a study on a scale of quality, strength or validity. Strength of Recommendation...