Statistics and data analyses —a new educational series for nephrologists

Evidence-based medicine has been the backbone of modern health care. Careful evaluation and synthesis of high-quality evidence may provide robust information that can be applied to policy and patient-level decision making, while accounting for patient preferences and needs and local contextual factors, with transformational effects on provision and delivery of care.1 Traditionally, evidence from randomized controlled trials (RCTs) has been considered the pinnacle of the hierarchy of clinical evidence because of the methodological rigor and robustness in RCT design and because RCTs are conducted in controlled settings with minimum risk of bias as a result of selection and confounding issues.
Source: Kidney International - Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Tags: Editorial Source Type: research