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How a remarkable trial on bedrest during the Korean war helped lead to evidence-based medicine
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An article examining how a clinical trial on bedrest during the Korean War influenced David Sackett's development of evidence-based medicine, a approach that fundamentally changed how modern doctors make clinical decisions based on rigorous scientific research rather than convention.
How a remarkable trial on bedrest during the Korean war helped lead to evidence-based medicine
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In 1959, a young doctor named David Sackett stumbled on a clinical trial that would change his life – and most of ours. The study showed that conventional wisdom on bed rest in medicine was wrong. And it helped lead Sackett and others to develop evidence-based medicine, in which doctors today make decisions based on rigorous scientific research.
It was a necessary corrective. The history of medicine is littered with practices once assu
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