ebm again...

after a difficult weekend at work... the 'light relief' i found was an article in critical care medicine about EBM, discussing the need to consider evidence through a window of 'biological plausibility', the ability to reproduce the setting in which the intervention took place, and the generalisability of any intervention...

they have a number of interesting articles mentioned in their discussion but this was my favourite ....

Remote, retroactive intercessory prayer said for a group is
associatedwith a shorter stay in hospital and shorter duration
of fever in patients witha bloodstream infection and should
be considered for use in clinical practice.

So in 2001 a group of Israeli's identified around 3000 pts who were sick with bloodstream infection between 1990 - 1996, randomised them into 2 groups, and allocated one group to have intercessory prayer said (retrospectively in 2001). The results were statistically significant (p<0.01).>