Evidence-Based Medicine

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