Published in:
31-08-2021 | Editorial
Fortune of Reversals: How Randomized Clinical Trials Shape Medical Practice
Authors:
Amnon Sonnenberg, Gennadiy Bakis
Published in:
Digestive Diseases and Sciences
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Issue 6/2022
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Excerpt
The lengthy process of becoming a physician, requiring well over a decade of pre-medical, medical, and postgraduate education and training culminates in the production of a young physician, brimming with knowledge and know-how. What many of these physicians might not realize is that much of their knowledge and practice is not based on rigorous scientific data but rather on handed-down traditions from previous eras that may, when seriously scrutinized, be overly expensive, time-consuming, ineffective, or even dangerous. In this editorial, the authors will discuss why and how these practices came about and why some have been invalidated, focusing on an article published in this issue of Digestive Diseases and Science [
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