Tag: alternative
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Your Pharmacy is Most Likely an Alternative, Complimentary, Off Label, Patient Centred One
Most Pharmacists rely on the foundation that their “evidence-based” mantra is being followed. A simple Google search shows us that: “Alternative medicine is any practice that is put forward as having the healing effects of medicine, but does not originate from evidence gathered using the scientific method, is not part of biomedicine, or is…
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Off label use of medications – cherry picking at its best
I had a conversation with our local palliative care and pain clinic doctor the other day. As a disclaimer, this physician is open to treating patients with the safety of the patient first in mind and he also has what I refer to as an “open mind” when it comes to doing whatever we can…
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What’s worth more? A favorable statistical p value or clinical results?
With the recent talk of p-values and their value in scientific journals it brings to light an important interpretive tool in efficacy of therapies, clinical experience. P value is the chance of getting a positive response in a scientific study when there is no real effect after all, also known as a false positive. The…