Medical Reversal

Medical reversal refers to when newer and more methodologically sound clinical trials produces findings that contradicts existing clinical practice (from which older trials were based on). The term was coined in 2011 by Vinay Prasad, Victor Gall, and Adam Cifu.^[1]

• Mandrola, J., Cifu, A., Prasad, V., & Foy, A. (2019). The case for being a medical conservative. The American journal of medicine, 132(8), 900-901.

• Kramer, T. A. (2004). Medscape Psychopharmacology Today: All the Things They Taught Us That Were Wrong. Medscape General Medicine, 6(2).
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• NYT: When Medicine Reverses Itself
• The Atlantic: When Evidence Says No, but Doctors Say Yes
• NYT: 10 Findings That Contradict Medical Wisdom. Doctors, Take Note.