Ethics and evidence based surgery

SYMPOSIUM ON EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE Ethics and evidence based surgery

Traditionally, surgical practice has been experiential and based on the contemporary understanding of basic mechanisms of disease. It was both a science and an art and depended to far too great an extent on the individualism and self belief of its main exponents. ‘‘Evidence based medicine’’ (EBM) emerged in the 1980s and a new gospel of ‘‘Rules of Evidence’’ was introduced. There is no doubt th...

Ethics and evidence-based medicine.

before the cervical cancer was discovered (median interval, 14 months), but no cervical smear had been obtained. Of particular interest is the fact that six of the 19 patients are in their seventh decade or older, with a median age of 80 years (range, 79–88 years). The Victorian Department of Human Services reports that the cervical-smear participation rate for eligible women in the Gippsland r...

Ethics and evidence-based practice

Evidence based medicine and ethics.

Evidence based medicine is an important modern movement. It has its evangelists; it has its enemies; and now it has the journal: Evidence Based M-edicine. One can tell that a movement is important when its detractors heatedly maintain that it is nothing new. 'Evidence based medicine?' one chemist said to me, 'What other kind of medicine could there possibly be?' and a consultant physician said ...

Ethics and evidence-based practice

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