My doctor wants to see published peer-reviewed clinical research on PSD before s/he will write me a letter of support. What should I do?
Published peer-reviewed clinical research is certainly the gold standard in clinical care, but PSD are so new that there is no peer-reviewed research, yet. PSDS is in the process of creating a research base for PSD, but this will take time and plenty of financial resources. It will likely be another four years before we can publish the results from our first clinical trial. In the meantime, the information PSDS offers on its website is just about all there is to offer on this subject, at least for now. Know that doctors do not base all of their clinical decisions on published peer-reviewed clinical research. Prescription medications in our country for example, are approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for very specific uses. Sometimes doctors stumble upon other successful uses for a drug and report their observation anecdotally, or as a case study in a clinical journal. These informal reports are not viewed as scientifically sound, so much as are the double-blind placebo-c
