Alternative
Medicine?
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 | Readers' and Author's Responses to "Information on Complementary and Alternative Medicine in US Government Databases Is Biased"
Posted 08/29/2006 - Medscape
(free login req.)
Kevin Spellman, RH(AHG), MCPP; Zdenek Smrcka, MD; John S.
Winterle, PhD; Christopher M. Papa, MD; Randy Beckett, DC,
APRN, NP-C; Wallace Sampson, MD
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 | Strategies
for Finding and Evaluating
Medical Information PDF presentation
Gilda's Club Delaware Valley, April 2006
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Evaluating
Medical Claims and Data PAL
How to better recognize bias, conflict of interests, and distinguish
between strong or weak clinical evidence.
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Sources of Bias
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Potential Sources of Bias ascd.org
pdf
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The Dirt on Coming Clean: Perverse Effects of
Disclosing Conflicts of Interest
cbdr.cmu.edu
.pdf
Notable quote: " While most people think conflicts
of interest are a problem of overt corruption, that is, that
professionals consciously and intentionally misrepresent the
advice they give so as to secure personal
gain, considerable research suggests that bias is more
frequently the result of motivational processes that are
unintentional and unconscious "
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Levels
of Evidence
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from beyond zero Steve
Dunn
"This is a statistical walk through the odds I've faced in my
battle with metastatic renal cell cancer and how those odds have
changed with time and circumstances."
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Pros and Cons of
Researching Your Cancer Steve
Dune
"... pros and cons as I see them in
the hope of helping you to better decide whether this approach is
right for you."
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 | Clinical Epidemiology &
Evidence-Based Medicine Glossary vetmed.wsu.edu
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 | Clinical Epidemiology Glossary med.ualberta.ca
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 | Levels of Evidence for Human Studies of Cancer
Complementary and Alternative Medicine Cancer.gov
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 | Systematic reviews en.wikipedia.org
generally regarded as the highest level of medical
evidence by evidence-based medicine
professionals.
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 | How to Read a Scientific Research Paper
- four-step guide hampshire.edu
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