Evolution and evidence based medicine
- University of California, Irvine Department of Ophthalmology, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA92697-4375, USA; rahill@uci.edu
A costly but necessary practice
Evolution as a process has led inventors and glaucoma surgeons to sites distal to the pretrabecular, trabecular, and post-trabecular origins of difficult to treat glaucomas. Evolution as a process has also led investigators to the multicentre randomised trials of sufficient power to answer questions and advance medical knowledge in a stepwise fashion. “Evidence based medicine” is …









