Classifying scientific evidence as the basis for evidence-based decision making: is strength of evidence absolute?

Classifying scientific evidence as the basis for evidence-based decision making: is strength of evidence absolute?

Background One of the most challenging aspects of evidence-based decision making is the appraisal of the available evidence in order to separate the wheat from the chaff. It has been stated that “not all evidence is created equal” (Cochrane Consumer Network Levels of evidence), and it has been recommended to grade the available literature by the strength of evidence as determined by the methods...

The Use of Evidence by Decision-Making Committees

The Feasibility of Evidence- based Decision Making in a Toxicology Emergency Case

Evidence- Based Medicine (EBM) aims to bring the best available evidence into clinical practice.  Different clinical methods of education such as in-patient rounds, follow up rounds, out-patients rounds, group sessions, grand rounds, lectures, and journal clubs could be held by EBM approach. The current text presents two interrelated case reports; a case report of EBM decision making in an emer...

Evidence-based medicine as Bayesian decision-making.

We review two recent trends: the emergence of evidence-based medicine and the growing use of Bayesian statistics in medical applications. Evidence-based medicine requires an integrated assessment of the available evidence, and associated uncertainty, but there is also an emphasis on decision-making, for individual patients, or at other points in the health-care system. This demands consideratio...

regional disparities in the distribution of health care facilities: building evidence for evidence-based policy making.

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