How can we know whether one specific medical therapy is more effective than another? What approaches are adequate for testing new treatments? And why do we need these methods?

The book “Testing Treatments - Better Research for Better Healthcare” is a plea for evidence-based medicine, and was published in English in 2006.

The authors Imogen Evans, Hazel Thornton, Ian Chalmers and Paul Glasziou are recognized experts in evidence-based medicine. The core thrust of the book: Only patients who are enlightened and critical can help ensure that beneficial therapies are used in the health care sector and unprofitable ones are omitted. The book has been a great success until now and has been translated into several languages.

The text versions are available free of charge for download on the page Testing Treatments interactive (TTi)  (www.testingtreatments.org) or on the pages of the ECRAN project (www.ecranproject.eu).