How We Can Err if We Rely on Randomized Controlled Trials

<p>Dr Trish Greenhalgh explains how we miss the boat when we discount real-world evidence in favor of randomized trial evidence.</p> <p>This podcast is intended for US healthcare professionals only.</p> <p>To read a full transcript of this episode or to comment please visit:</p> <p>https://www.medscape.com/features/public/machine</p> <p>Eric J. Topol, MD, Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute; Professor of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California; Editor-in-Chief, Medscape</p> <p>Abraham Verghese, MD, Physician, author, and educator; Professor and Vice Chair, Theory & Practice of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California</p> <p>Trish Greenhalgh, OBE, MD, Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom</p> <p>Orthodoxy, <em>illusio</em>, and playing the scientific game: a Bourdieusian analysis of infection control science in the COVID-19 pandemic [version 3; peer review: 2 approved]. <em>Wellcome Open Res</em> 2021, 6:126</p> <p>https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16855.3</p> <p>Ten scientific reasons in support of airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2. <em>The Lancet</em>, Vol 397; May 2021</p> <p>https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00869-2</p> <p>Adapt or die: how the pandemic made the shift from EBM to EBM+ more urgent. <em>BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine</em> October 2022; volume 27; number 5</p> <p>http://doi.org/10.1136/bmjebm-2022-111952</p> <p>Long covid—an update for primary care. <em>BMJ</em> 2022;378:e072117</p> <p>http://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2022-072117</p> <p>You may also like:</p> <p>Medscape's Chief Cardiology Correspondent Dr John M. Mandrola's This Week In Cardiology</p> <p>https://www.medscape.com/twic</p> <p>Discussions on topics at the core of cardiology and the practice of medicine with Dr Robert A. Harrington and guests on The Bob Harrington Show</p> <p>https://www.medscape.com/author/bob-harrington</p> <p>For questions or feedback, please email: news@medscape.net</p>