Practicing outcome-based medical care using pragmatic care trials.

ABSTRACT: The current separation between medical research and care is an obstacle to essential aspects of good medical practice: the verification that care interventions actually deliver the good outcomes they promise, and the use of scientific methods to optimize care under uncertainty. Pragmatic care trials have been designed to address these problems. Care trials are all-inclusive randomized trials integrated into care. Every item of trial design is selected in the best medical interest of participating patients. Care trials can eventually show what constitutes good medical practice based on patient outcomes. In the meantime, care trials give clinicians and patients the scientific methods necessary for optimization of medical care when no one really knows what to do.We report the progress of 9 ra

SUBMITTER: Darsaut TE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7599099 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature