RT Journal
A1 Warner Stevenson L
T1 “A little learning is a dangerous thing”
JF Archives of Internal Medicine
JO Archives of Internal Medicine
YR 2011
FD September 12
VO 171
IS 16
SP 1494
OP 1495
DO 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.272
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2011.272
AB 
Published 300 years later, 2 articles in this issue of the Archives re-examine our basis of evidence for cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT).2- 3 They provide vivid demonstration of how we may be intoxicated by the enthusiastic presentations of new trials2 and how we may be rendered sober again by deeper analysis of the collective experience3 as we seek to translate those trials for the patients who rely on our wisdom. It is remarkable that these lessons can be clearly exemplified even in relation to CRT, which offers carefully selected patients one of the most effective therapies for heart failure in terms of quality of life, freedom from hospitalization, and survival.