Testing Treatments - Better Research for better Healthcare

A very good handbook that all our stroke researchers should be following. 226 pages worth
http://www.testingtreatments.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/TT-interactive.pdf
The table of contents.
1 New – but is it better? 1
2 Hoped-for effects that don’t materialize 13
3 More is not necessarily better 21
4 Earlier is not necessarily better 31
5 Dealing with uncertainty about the effects of treatments 50
6 Fair tests of treatments 64
7 Taking account of the play of chance 85
8 Assessing all the relevant, reliable evidence 92
9 Regulating tests of treatments: help or hindrance? 105
10 Research – good, bad, and unnecessary 115
11 Getting the right research done is everybody’s business 130
12 So what makes for better healthcare? 143
13 Research for the right reasons: blueprint for a better future 160