Evidence-Based Medicine: In Its Place

ISBN-13: 9780415283212 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 184 str.

Ivar Sonbo Kristiansen; Gavin Mooney

Opis

Evidence-based medicine is defined as the conscientious explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients. This superb collection will take a critical view of this concept and examine the economic implications of its imposition.

Spis treści

1. Evidence based medicine: a method, collaboration, movement or crusade? Ivar Sønbø Kristiansen and Gavin Mooney
2. Evidence, Effectiveness and Ethics. Cochrane's Legacy. Uff Juul Jensen
3. Evidence based nursing: must or mantra? Helle Ploug Hansen
4. Evidence based health economics: Answers in search of questions? Steve Birch
5. Evidence based medicine: objectives and values. Gavin Mooney
6. Randomised clinical trials in assessing inferences about casuality and aetiology. Dag S. Thelle
7. Number needed to treat - number needed to cheat? Ivar Sønbø Kristiansen
8. Decision analysis, EBM and Medical Education: A case study in the diffusion of innovation within academic medicine. Arthur S. Elstein
9. RCT in drug policies - can the best be an enemy of the good? Kjeld Møller Pedersen
10. EBM and International health: Good, but not good enough. Aileen J Plant
11 EBM and clinical practice: does it work? Knut Rasmussen

O autorze

Ivar Sonbo Kristiansen, Gavin Mooney