Rational diagnosis and treatment evidence based clinical decision making inproceedingswulff2000rationalda titlerational diagnosis and treatment evidence based clinical decision making authorh wulff and p gotzsche year2000 h wulff p gotzsche published 2000 medicine preface introduction 1 the foundation of clinical decisions 2 the reliability and relevance of . Now in its fourth edition rational diagnosis and treatment evidence based clinical decision making is a unique book to look at evidence based medicine and the difficulty of applying evidence from group studies to individual patients the book analyses the successive stages of the decision process and deals with topics such as the examination of the patient the reliability of clinical data . Description now in its fourth edition rational diagnosis and treatment evidence based clinical decision making is a unique book to look at evidence based medicine and the difficulty of applying evidence from group studies to individual patients the book analyses the successive stages of the decision process and deals with topics such as the examination of the patient the reliability of . Our approach here will be that of clinical decision analysis 7 in it treatment decisions are determined not only by obtaining published evidence but also by being able to combine this diagnostic evidence in a rational transparent and systematic way to optimize interventions for the benefit of the patient figure 1