Talk:Empirical treatment
Latest comment: 9 years ago by Thomas.Hedden in topic Empirical treatment vs. Empiric therapy ?
Disagree edit
Disagree with definition
Means known to be most effective based upon experience and/or evidence.
- No, it doesn't. That's 'evidence-based treatment.' Empirical treatment is 'This antibiotic often helps people who have a fever, so let's just try it, even though we're not sure that you have a bacterial infection instead of something else.' WhatamIdoing (talk) 19:50, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
Empirical treatment vs. Empiric therapy ? edit
There are two articles about this: Empirical treatment and Empiric therapy. If these are truly different, they should be distinguished from one another. Otherwise, these two articles should be combined. Thomas.Hedden (talk) 17:43, 19 February 2015 (UTC)