Ending Medical Reversal: Improving Outcomes, Saving Lives

by Vinayak K. Prasad and Adam S. Cifu

Book Overview

Medications such as Vioxx and procedures such as vertebroplasty for back pain are among the medical "advances" that turned out to be dangerous or useless. What Dr. Vinayak K. Prasad and Dr. Adam S. Cifu call medical reversal happens when doctors start using a medication, procedure, or diagnostic tool without a robust evidence base--and then stop using it when it is found not to help, or even to harm, patients.

In Ending Medical Reversal,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421417723
• ISBN13: 9781421417721
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher