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you know?
Remember
the millions of dollars involved in the legal battles surrounding
bone marrow transplant and high dose chemotherapy for advanced
breast cancer? The evidence for doing the procedure was
never there. So how did this get to be a community standard?
Fact:
Nearly 80 percent of all physicians tested, fail our simple
evidence-based medicine test. And we grade the test generously.
Medical
journals publish many useless or misleading studies –
even those journals considered the very best?
- Most
doctors lack skills to evaluate the quality of a medical
study? Consequently, much that is done in medicine causes
harm to patients.
- The
Institute of Medicine,
Medicare, the Veterans Administration, RAND and the Dartmouth
Center for Evaluative Clinical Science all estimate that
up to a half of all medical care is inappropriate? (Some
think it’s even higher.)
- Scientist
and evidence-based medicine leader, Dr. David Eddy, did
ground-breaking work that exposes the lack of expertise
in the “medical experts”? Aren’t these
the very people you and your opponents think you can rely
on?
How
might what we know benefit you?
If
your or your opponents’ case is based on published
medical literature — even from the most prestigious
medical journals – there is a very good chance the
studies they are using have significant threats to validity.
Many
of the 10,000 articles entered into the National Library
of Medicine each week have “fatal flaws” which
make them invalid. In other words, the results and conclusions
in many of the published articles are so flawed, that a
reader cannot reliably draw conclusions about the effects
of the intervention on outcomes.
- We
believe that a working knowledge of evidence-based medicine
could help you.
- Wouldn’t
you like to know easy-to-learn methods for evaluating
the quality of medical science?
- Wouldn’t
you like to learn of some of the highest regarded sources
for finding quality medical information – and wouldn’t
you like to know tips on how to find information quickly
and easily?
- Wouldn’t
you like ideas for how you can better test the expertise
of experts?
This does not negate the value of expert testimony, but
puts a new type of expertise into the hands of attorneys
– the power of knowing what the best available medical
evidence says.
Wouldn't
you like to know...
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If your opponents are basing cases on invalid medical
science.
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If the medical evidence you are using has significant
threats to validity.
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If your expert witnesses are basing opinions and conclusions
on flawed medical evidence.
Simplified
methods
We can rapidly teach you, your support
staff and your expert witnesses the key principles used
to determine study validity and usefulness.
Contact
us
We conduct one-to-two day workshops and are available to
travel on-site. To learn how we could tailor a customized
training program to meet your needs, contact either of us.
Read about us and our many testimonials on our website at
www.delfini.org. We
look forward to hearing from you.
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& Medicine Tool
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