Key concepts for informed health choices. 1.1: assumptions that treatments are safe or effective can be misleading
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DOI: 10.1177/01410768221120491
Abstract: The explanatory essays in The James Lind Library were written to promote wider understanding of why fair tests of treatments are needed, and what they have come to consist of. The informed health choices essays… read more here.
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Key concepts for informed health choices: 1.3. Seemingly logical assumptions about treatments can be misleading
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DOI: 10.1177/01410768221135536
Abstract: Effective treatments can prevent health problems and premature death and improve the quality of life. However, nature is a great healer and people often recover from illness without treatment. Likewise, some health problems may get… read more here.
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Key concepts for informed health choices. 2.1: comparisons of treatments should be fair
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DOI: 10.1177/01410768221140733
Abstract: As explained in previous essays in this series, it is impossible to know what the effects of a treatment are without comparing it to what would have happened without the treatment. Predicting what the likely… read more here.
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Key concepts for informed health choices. 2.2: reviews of the effects of treatments should be fair
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DOI: 10.1177/01410768221140738
Abstract: This is the second of four essays in this series explain-ing key concepts about the trustworthiness of evidence from treatment comparisons. In this essay read more here.
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