Evidence-Based and Personalized Medicine. It’s [AND] not [OR] Sahar Mokhles, PhD, Johanna JM Takkenberg, MD, PhD, Tom Treasure, MD, MS The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 103, Issue 1, Pages 351-360 (January 2017) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2016.08.100 Copyright © 2017 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 The three-legged stool of which best available evidence is just one leg. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2017 103, 351-360DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2016.08.100) Copyright © 2017 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 2 The pyramid of evidence. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2017 103, 351-360DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2016.08.100) Copyright © 2017 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 3 Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 100, July to December 2015, the 50th Anniversary of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons, 526 articles were categorized by title, abstract, and full text. In addition to the 362 articles included in this chart there were 106 educational articles, 59 commentaries, 38 related to modelling and risk scores, 27 reporting clinical science, and 10 on bench or animal laboratory studies. (RCT = randomized controlled trial.) The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2017 103, 351-360DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2016.08.100) Copyright © 2017 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions