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• evidence-based medicine is simply about deciding best medical practice based on the best available evidence.
• the principles that had been laid down by James Lind: take patients with a particular condition, randomly assign them either to an acupuncture group or to a control group, and see if those receiving acupuncture improve more than the control group.
• we can now see that a well-conducted trial ideally requires several key features: A comparison between a control group and a group receiving the treatment being tested. A sufficiently large number of patients in each group. Random assignment of patients to each group. The administering of a placebo to the control group. Identical conditions for the...
• In 1807 Hahnemann coined the word Homöopathie, from the Greek hómoios and pathos, meaning similar suffering.