Logo

Log In Sign Up |  An official publication of: American College of Emergency Physicians
Navigation
  • Home
  • Multimedia
    • Podcasts
    • Videos
  • Clinical
    • Airway Managment
    • Case Reports
    • Critical Care
    • Guidelines
    • Imaging & Ultrasound
    • Pain & Palliative Care
    • Pediatrics
    • Resuscitation
    • Trauma & Injury
  • Career
    • Practice Management
      • Reimbursement & Coding
      • Legal
      • Operations
    • Awards
    • Certification
    • Early Career
    • Education
    • Leadership
    • Profiles
    • Retirement
    • Work-Life Balance
  • Compensation Reports
  • Columns
    • ACEP4U
    • Airway
    • Benchmarking
    • By the Numbers
    • EM Cases
    • End of the Rainbow
    • Equity Equation
    • FACEPs in the Crowd
    • Forensic Facts
    • From the College
    • Kids Korner
    • Medicolegal Mind
    • Opinion
      • Break Room
      • New Spin
      • Pro-Con
    • Pearls From EM Literature
    • Policy Rx
    • Practice Changers
    • Problem Solvers
    • Residency Spotlight
    • Resident Voice
    • Skeptics’ Guide to Emergency Medicine
    • Sound Advice
    • Special OPs
    • Toxicology Q&A
    • WorldTravelERs
  • Resources
    • mTBI Resource Center
    • ACEP.org
    • ACEP Knowledge Quiz
    • CME Now
    • Annual Scientific Assembly
      • ACEP14
      • ACEP15
      • ACEP16
      • ACEP17
      • ACEP18
      • ACEP19
    • Annals of Emergency Medicine
    • JACEP Open
    • Emergency Medicine Foundation
  • Issue Archives
  • Archives
    • Brief19
    • Coding Wizard
    • Images in EM
    • Care Team
    • Quality & Safety
  • About
    • Our Mission
    • Medical Editor in Chief
    • Editorial Advisory Board
    • Awards
    • Authors
    • Article Submission
    • Contact Us
    • Advertise
    • Subscribe
    • Privacy Policy
    • Copyright Information

The Filtering of Medical Evidence Has Clearly Failed

By Ryan Patrick Radecki, MD, MS | on November 1, 2013 | 0 Comment
Opinion
Share:  Print-Friendly Version

They are dependent on prominent journals to be vigilant against distortion in a fashion most would find excessive. JAMA, with a qualified circulation in excess of 300,000 and one of the highest impact factors in medicine, should be one of those gatekeepers.

You Might Also Like
  • Antibiotic Therapy for Abscesses Medical Dogma Challenged by Evidence-Based Research, Outcomes
  • Medical Students, Residents Can Teach Each Other Things in Evidence-Based Medicine
  • Medical Evidence Revisits Acute Kidney Injury Risk with Contrast-Induced Nephropathy
Explore This Issue
ACEP News: Vol 32 – No 11 – November 2013

We need to expect and demand better of these respected institutions to better reflect their mission β€œto promote the science and art of medicine and the betterment of the public health.”


Dr. Radecki is an emergency physician and AHRQ Patient Safety and Quality Fellow. He blogs at Emergency Medicine Literature of Note and can be found on Twitter @emlitofnote.

Pages: 1 2 | Single Page

Topics: AntibioticBloggEDConflict of InterestEmergency MedicineEmergency PhysicianEthicsLab TestResearch

Related

  • The Chilling Effect of ICE Raids on Emergency Medicine

    January 10, 2026 - 4 Comments
  • Opinion: Emergency Physicians Witness the Universal Truth of Humanity

    January 9, 2026 - 3 Comments
  • Let Core Values Help Guide Patient Care

    November 5, 2025 - 0 Comment

Current Issue

ACEP Now: February 2026 (Digital)

Read More

About the Author

Ryan Patrick Radecki, MD, MS

Ryan Patrick Radecki, MD, MS, is an emergency physician and informatician with Christchurch Hospital in Christchurch, New Zealand. He is the Annals of Emergency Medicine podcast co-host and Journal Club editor and can be found on Twitter @emlitofnote.

View this author's posts »

No Responses to “The Filtering of Medical Evidence Has Clearly Failed”

Leave a Reply Cancel Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *


*
*



Wiley
  • Home
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy
  • Terms of Use
  • Advertise
  • Cookie Preferences
Copyright © 2026 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved, including rights for text and data mining and training of artificial technologies or similar technologies. ISSN 2333-2603