Published in:
01-12-2011 | Letter
Emotional or evidence based medicine - is there a moral tragedy in haemostatic therapy?
Authors:
Sibylle Kozek-Langenecker, Benny Sørensen, John Hess, Donat R Spahn
Published in:
Critical Care
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Issue 6/2011
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Excerpt
We strongly recommend that critical evaluation of medical practice is based on evidence rather than emotional reaction. Surprisingly, Stanworth and Hunt [
1] seem to resort to the latter in response to our review [
2]. Their questioning of ethics and morals appears unjustified, since we fully acknowledged multiple, serious limitations of the current evidence and methodologies within our review. They claim 'the danger of this review is that the message supports a move toward greater use of fibrinogen concentrate without proper evaluation' [
1], ignoring our final statement that 'more high-quality, prospective studies are required before any definitive conclusions can be drawn' [
2]. …
