Evidence-Based Medicine: In Its Place

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of illustrations......Page 10
List of contributors......Page 11
Preface......Page 13
Evidence-based medicine: method, collaboration, movement or crusade?......Page 16
Evidence, effectiveness and ethics: Cochrane\'s legacy......Page 35
Evidence-based nursing: must or mantra?......Page 48
Evidence-based health economics: answers in search of questions?......Page 65
Evidence-based medicine: objectives and values......Page 77
Randomised clinical trials in assessing inferences about causality and aetiology......Page 88
Number needed to treat    number needed to cheat?......Page 105
Decision analysis, evidence-based medicine and medical education: a case study in the diffusion of innovation within academic medicine......Page 121
Randomised controlled trials in drug policies: can the best be the enemy of the good?......Page 139
Evidence-based health care and international health: good, but not good enough......Page 156
Evidence-based medicine and clinical practice: does it work?......Page 166
Index......Page 175