Talk:Empirical treatment

Disagree
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 ?
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)