Case studies are used in medical decision making only when there is no better form of evidence available, or there is a gap in current evidence. It is not the first place to look
Case studies are used in medical decision making only when there is no better form of evidence available, or there is a gap in current evidence. It is not the first place to look
But in this case, doctors across the US and Canada stopped giving pain meds to new mothers because of this one study! Even if the study didn't get retroactively declared to be fictional, that seems like an extreme level of decision-making over one case.