Treatment outcomes and shared decision making

Key points Clinical equipoise will become more common in orthopaedics When treatment outcomes are subjective and have large heterogeneity, shared decision making should be used Clinical equipoise means a situation when there is no objective superiority between two choices. The lack of superiority may be due to complete lack of data or evidence about certain […]

Uncertainty in medical decision making

“The failure to train doctors about clinical uncertainty has been called “the greatest deficiency of medical education throughout the twentieth century.” Djulbegovic (2004), https://www.bmj.com/content/329/7480/1419 Life is full of uncertainties. In decision making uncertainty means that it is impossible to define future outcomes. Amount of medical information continues to grow exponentially, but uncertainty is still inevitable […]

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