Stop designing studies around outcomes that don’t matter to patients

I recently returned from four days of training in evidence-based healthcare (thank you, AHRQ and Colorado School of Public Health). I was honored to work side by side with journalists and decision makers as we learned to ferret out systematic bias in medical research.

Before I went to the workshop I re-read “Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science,” a 2010 article from the Atlantic which begins, “Much of …

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