Using the Evidence - Lecture Thirty-Three

Question 1

Evidence-based practice

Answer 1

Patients values and choices
Best available research evidence
Clinical expertise

Question 2

Good evidence is vital, otherwise danger that:

Answer 2

Ineffective treatments are used
Give harmful treatments
Not providing already existing effective treatments
Provide expensive new treatments which aren’t better than others

Question 3

We cannot rely on:

Answer 3

Theories about effectiveness of treatments
Professional opinion
Animal studies
Trials with surrogate end points