Built on the foundation of the randomized controlled trial (RCT), Evidence Based Medicine
(EBM) is at its best when optimizing outcomes for homogeneous cohorts of patients like …

Public and scientific conceptions of identity are changing alongside advances in
biotechnology, with important relevance to health and medicine. In particular, biological …

Lyme disease is caused by the bacteria borrelia burgdorferi and is spread primarily through
the bite of a tick. There is considerable uncertainty in the medical community regarding the …

In his recent editorial “Forty Years of Clinimetrics,” Fava eloquently summarized the
contribution of clinimetrics to moving clinical science from a focus on diagnosis and …

Construction of a patient narrative (case history) is a core strategy in the care of patients.
Recent advances in biomarker identification and digital sensors to monitor physiological and …

Background Although evidence-based medicine proposes personalized care that considers
the best evidence, it still fails to address personal treatment in many real clinical scenarios …

Personalized medicine has been a booming area in clinical research for the past decade, in
which the detailed information about the patient genotype and clinical conditions were …

Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) of conventional cytotoxic chemotherapies is strongly
supported yet poorly implemented in daily practice in hospitals. Analytical methods for the …

This study focuses on clinical pathways guided by evidence‐based medicine (EBM). With
the clinical pathway as the center, the subjective and objective medical knowledge of …

Only few patients affected by acute stroke are treated with thrombolytic therapy or
endovascular treatment, especially in rural or underserved areas/hospitals. A survey of …