title: Does evidence-based hearsay determine the use of medical treatments?
authors.affiliation: Stanford Prevention Research Center, Department of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA; Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA; Department of Statistics, Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford, CA, USA; Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS), Stanford, CA, USA. Electronic address: jioannid@stanford.edu.
authors.forename: John P A
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Ioannidis
mesh_terms: D003657:Decision Making; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006801:Humans
keywords: Bias; Evidence-based hearsay; Evidence-based medicine; Medical decision making; Observational trials; Pharmaceutical treatments; Placebo responding; Randomized trials