Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Case report on trial: Do you, Doctor, swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? | PR JOURNALOF MEDICAL Ur CASE reports Case report on trial Do you Doctor swear to tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth Yitschaky et al. Yitschaky et al. Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5 179 http content 5 1 179 13 May 2011 2 BioMed Central Yitschaky et al. Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5 179 http content 5 1 179 EDITORIAL JOURNAL OF MEDICAL CASE REPORTS Open Access Case report on trial Do you Doctor swear to tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth Oded Yitschaky1 Michael Yitschaky1 and Yehuda Zadik2 3 Abstract We are in the era of evidence based medicine in which our knowledge is stratified from top to bottom in a hierarchy of evidence. Many in the medical and dental communities highly value randomized clinical trials as the gold standard of care and undervalue clinical reports. The aim of this editorial is to emphasize the benefits of case reports in dental and oral medicine and encourage those of us who write and read them. Editorial We live today in the era of evidence based medicine in which our knowledge is stratified from top to bottom in a hierarchy of evidence 1-3 . At the pinnacle of this hierarchy we find randomized clinical trials systematic reviews and meta-analyses which are supposed to be the cream and cherry of medical-scientific-modern knowledge. Far below at the bottom of the pyramid we find case reports which are often barely regarded as evidence. The aim of this editorial however is to emphasize the benefits of case reports and encourage those of us who write and read them. Randomized clinical trials are expensive take years to conduct and may encounter ethical problems such as knowingly withholding treatment from a sample of patients. It is true that randomized clinical trials can give us a statistical answer for very narrow clinical questions which can guide us when treating the average patient . the patient who comes with only the .
