Keynote address: The need for randomized control trials

✍ Scribed by Thomas C. Chalmers

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1984
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 634 KB
• Volume: 2
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0733-2459
• DOI: 10.1002/jca.2920020117

✦ Synopsis

T h e r e f o r e , we have t o f i n d some o t h e r way t o reduce t h e i n c r e a s e d c o s t of h e a l t h d e l i v e r y . Another a t t r a c t i v e way i s t o apply t h e s c i e n t i f i c method t o t h e p r a c t i c e of medicine and f i n d whether we're w a s t i n g money by p r o v i d i n g t h e r a p y f o r people who may n o t b e n e f i t from it and determine i f we can save money by u s i n g t h o s e t h e r a p i e s i n d i s e a s e s i n which they do work.