What I’m hearing is that EBM as described can’t be very effective. Doctors do not have the mental energy to spare to be hunting through the literature. For one thing, the literature is a mess, there’s a mass amount of dead wood and conflicting findings and studies that didn’t replicate and so on. It is probably beyond the ability of a human to synthesize it all into a decision matrix to actually use to treat patients optimally.
Obviously the basic principle of using evidence gathered from lots and lots of places to make decisions instead of just doing whatever the attending physician you learned under does is sound. As long as the laws of the universe are the same between different medical clinics, this is a better method to make decisions with.
But yeah, this is a field waiting for AI to crack it open.
What I’m hearing is that EBM as described can’t be very effective. Doctors do not have the mental energy to spare to be hunting through the literature. For one thing, the literature is a mess, there’s a mass amount of dead wood and conflicting findings and studies that didn’t replicate and so on. It is probably beyond the ability of a human to synthesize it all into a decision matrix to actually use to treat patients optimally.
Obviously the basic principle of using evidence gathered from lots and lots of places to make decisions instead of just doing whatever the attending physician you learned under does is sound. As long as the laws of the universe are the same between different medical clinics, this is a better method to make decisions with.
But yeah, this is a field waiting for AI to crack it open.