In defense of randomized clinical trials in surgery: Let us not forget Archie Cochrane's legacy.
The Cochrane collaboration is a pinnacle of evidence-based medicine. It acts to commission, improve, and collate the best medical evidence for clinicians. Its creation followed work by the Scottish physician and epidemiologist Archibald Cochrane. He recognized that high-quality reproducible evidence...
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Elsevier
2017
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| Gaia: | The Cochrane collaboration is a pinnacle of evidence-based medicine. It acts to commission, improve, and collate the best medical evidence for clinicians. Its creation followed work by the Scottish physician and epidemiologist Archibald Cochrane. He recognized that high-quality reproducible evidence in properly designed studies was vital to facilitate medical advances. His monograph Effectiveness and Efficiency: Random Reflections on Health Services explained his beliefs that randomized controlled trials acted as a brake on health care inflation. |
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