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Over the past two decades, we have heard an increasing demand for practicing evidence-based medicine. The medical literature is the core of our knowledge base in ophthalmology. The so-called “hierarchy of evidence” has caused much unresolved controversy about the nature of evidence that is truly most relevant for the practice of glaucoma. While systematic reviews and meta-analyses synthesize the information in a broad range of studies, the highest level of basic research is still considered the “randomized clinical trial (RCT).”
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Eisenberg, D., Schacknow, P.N. (2010). Evaluating Ophthalmic Literature. In: Schacknow, P., Samples, J. (eds) The Glaucoma Book. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-76700-0_13
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