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From Classical to "Quantum" Medicine: When Patient Choice Determines Outcomes

2026-04-08

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Much of evidence‑based clinical medicine—and the clinical trials that inform it—rests on a classical assumption: that comparative clinical outcomes are determined primarily by biological treatment effects, holding broader social and environmental determinants of health constant. This assumption holds when biological contrasts between treatments are large, but it breaks down in many common clinical decisions in whi...

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Literature Corpus work: 8dd42c9c-1c75-5259-ae3d-eb85f2d31922
DOI: 10.22541/au.177499026.68574515/v3

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