Medical Decision Making in Integrative Medicine: Safety, Efficacy, and Patient Preference.

The article focuses on the medical decision making (MDM) in integrative medicine (IM). It states that the Bradford-Hill criteria is used for drawing conclusions regarding causality in terms of disease etiology. It discusses the scale in grading the efficacy and effectiveness, as well as the scale in grading safety of the treatment in IM. Further, it mentions the importance of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in evidence-based medicine (EBM), which has been recognized by the IM community.