external clinical evidence

Failing to Report Adverse Effects of Treatments

Health Care Renewal  Wed, 10/28/2009 - 14:55

We have frequently advocated the evidence-based medicine (EBM) approach to improve the care of individual patients, and to improve health care quality at a reasonable cost for populations.

Evidence-based medicine is not just medicine based on some sort of evidence. As Dr David Sackett, and colleagues wrote [Sackett DL, Rosenberg WM, Muir Gray JA, Haynes RB, Richardson WS.

Evidence-based medicine; what it is and what it isn't. BMJ 1996; 312: 71-72. Link here.

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