Flaws in methods of evidence-based medicine may adversely affect public health directives
- 31 March 2005
- Vol. 137 (3) , 279-284
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surg.2004.11.004
Abstract
No abstract availableThis publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
- Surgery for Severe ObesityNew England Journal of Medicine, 2004
- Peer Review and Federal RegulationsNew England Journal of Medicine, 2004
- Increases in Clinically Severe Obesity in the United States, 1986-2000Archives of internal medicine (1960), 2003
- Clinical and cost effectiveness of surgery for morbid obesity: a systematic review and economic evaluationInternational Journal of Obesity, 2003
- Ethics of clinical trials from a bayesian and decision analytic perspective: whose equipoise is it anyway?BMJ, 2003
- Psychosocial functioning in the obese before and after weight reduction: construct validity and responsiveness of the Obesity-related Problems scaleInternational Journal of Obesity, 2003
- MORBIDITY OF SEVERE OBESITYSurgical Clinics of North America, 2001
- Randomized, Controlled Trials, Observational Studies, and the Hierarchy of Research DesignsNew England Journal of Medicine, 2000
- A Comparison of Observational Studies and Randomized, Controlled TrialsNew England Journal of Medicine, 2000
- Observational studies as alternatives to randomized clinical trials in surgical clinical researchSurgery, 1996