Multiple treatment comparison analysis: If A is better than B, and B is better than C, is A better than C?

The transitive property across randomized controlled trials: if B is better than A, and C is better than B, will C be better than A?

In everyday practice, clinicians are faced with questions on the comparative benefits and risks of the various health interventions available to treat patients. When performed well and reported completely, randomized controlled trials (and systematic reviews of such trials) are generally considered to be the most scientifically rigorous approach to determine whether a cause-effect relationship ...

Hepatitis B and C: prevention is better than cure.

Total Knee Replacement Sizing: Shoe Size Is a Better Predictor for Implant Size than Body Height

Background: Various sizes of implants need to be available during surgery. The purpose of this paper is to comparebody height and shoe size with implant sizes in patients who underwent total knee replacement surgery to see whichbiomarker is a better predictor for preoperative planning to determine implant size.Methods: A total of 100 knees, belonging to 50 females and 50 males, were observed. P...

Prevention is better than treatment

News In the early 2000s, Thailand was in the throes of rolling out universal health care for its citizens and Prathip Phantumvanit knew – from years of dental practice and research – that tooth decay was remarkably widespread among adults and children for a developing country. Phantumvanit teamed up with the health ministry to create a new cadre of dental nurses to staff rural health centres an...

Is ACCTRAN better than DELTRAN?

When parsimony ancestral character reconstruction is ambiguous, it is often resolved in favour of the more complex character state. Hence, secondary loss (secondary ‘‘absence’’) of a complex feature is favoured over parallel gains of that feature as this preserves the stronger hypothesis of homology. We believe that such asymmetry in character state complexity is important information for under...