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To the Editor. Regarding Dr Bauchner's comments in an article published in your journal,1 I was struck by the author's concern that evidence-based medicine (EBM) “may be distracting from the important goal of finding ways to change physician behavior.” Dr Bauchner discussed in a nice overview the rigors of the statistical methods incorporated in the ...
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Publisher Summary This chapter presents a comprehensive overview of evidence-based medicine (EBM). The top five levels of evidence that are usually considered in EBM consist of study designs that provide systematic clinical observation and that are borrowed from the scientific methods of epidemiology.
H, Karunatilake, A S V, Mendis
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A 59-year-old man presents to your office with a 4 week history of intermittent substernal chest discomfort with exertion, without radiation and relieved by rest. Each of several episodes lasted no more than 5 minutes. He has been in good general health, had no history of prior chest pain, hypertension, diabetes, or serious illness.
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Effective UK weight management services for adults [PDF]
A number of evidence-based weight management interventions are now available with different models, and serving different patient/client groups. While positive outcomes are key to the decision making process, so too is the information around how these ...
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Evidence-based medicine and progress in the medical sciences [PDF]
The question what scientific progress means for a particular domain such as medicine seems importantly different from the question what scientific progress is in general. While the latter question received ample treatment in the philosophical literature,
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Evidence-based medicine and values-based medicine : partners in clinical education as well as in clinical practice [PDF]
The best clinical decisions are based on both evidence and values in what is known as the ‘twofeet principle’. Anecdotally, educationalists find teaching clinicians to become more evidence based is relatively simple in comparison to encouraging them to ...
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Evidence based medicine is the practice of solving the clinical problems in one's practice by judicious and systematic use of the medical literature. This includes framing questions rightly and searching the right kind of literature. Thereafter, the available evidence needs to be evaluated for the validity, strength and effect size.
Shah, Dheeraj, Sachdev, HPS
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Rationalism and Empiricism in Modern Medicine [PDF]
The roots of rationalism and empiricism in the Hippocratic tradition are explored. The triumph of the rationalists in the founding of modern medicine is emphasized. The development of clinical epidemiology and the evidence-based medicine over the last 30
Newton, Warren
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Duncan Neuhauser, Mireya Diaz and Iain Chalmers (JRSM 2008;101:381–383) are puzzled that one of the great pioneers of clinical trials, Russell LaFayette Cecil, failed to include a chapter on trial methodology when he went on to edit his best-selling Textbook of Medicine – but perhaps they are being diplomatic.1 If Cecil thought most doctors did not ...
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Exposing the evidence gap for complementary and alternative medicine to be integrated into science-based medicine. [PDF]
When people who advocate integrating conventional science-based medicine with complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) are confronted with the lack of evidence to support CAM they counter by calling for more research, diverting attention to the ...
Hopayian, K, Power, M.
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