Evidence-based medicine is a widely known, even very well-known term. And everything that is widely known, having gone to the people, is filled with new, sometimes unexpected, meaning. Some believe that evidence-based medicine is a legal term. Others consider all official medicine as a whole to be evidence-based, which is not entirely true. Still others know from reliable sources that no evidence-based medicine actually exists; it is an invention of pharmaceutical corporations that helps them promote their products. There are many options... In fact, evidence-based medicine is not an industry or a fiction, but an approach or, if you like, a principle. According to this principle, everything used for preventive, therapeutic and diagnostic purposes must be effective and safe, both of which must be supported by reliable evidence. Evidence-based medicine is medicine based on evidence. This book will help you understand both the concept of evidence-based medicine and what research methods help prove the effectiveness of a drug or treatment method. After all, in traditional, official, completely scientific medicine there are a lot of problems with confirming effectiveness and safety. A proper clinical trial must be transparent and completely objective. Evidence-based medicine stands on these two pillars. And these pillars rest on a foundation called “experiment.”