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Can someone provide an example of where this would provide value? I'm not sure I understand. The examples I see in the article (picking the 'best' pain medicat
by epmaybe 5y ago
Can someone provide an example of where this would provide value? I'm not sure I understand.
The examples I see in the article (picking the 'best' pain medication or antidepressant) aren't all that interesting to me. Like, of course naproxen wins, it has the longest half life of all of the listed medications...and the comparison of SSRI are well known at this point. I find it hard to believe that a board certified psychiatrist (Susan) wouldn't know which medication has better efficacy in which scenarios.
Perhaps this is meant for providers that don't understand the pharmacology and evidence behind the drugs they're prescribing. If that's the case, maybe we should be asking ourselves if we should be the ones prescribing that medication or if a specialist should.
And maybe it can elucidate useful findings quicker than academia, but I doubt by much. And funnily enough, there are already tools that exist to make meta-analyses and systematic reviews a lot quicker than they used to be.
- treis 5y ago>I find it hard to believe that a board certified psychiatrist (Susan) wouldn't know which medication has better efficacy in which scenarios. The field of medicine is constantly changing with new drugs and studies coming out all of the time. So no Susan might not know that and if she does she learned the new information from somewhere. The problem that the guy in TFA has is that the business he wants to build already exists. Uptodate provides phsyician references, Cochrane does a lot of meta/review studies, and I'm sure there's others.
- JAlexoid 5y agoI mean... Research your competition should be on the list of every founder.