Evidence-Based Medical Ethics: Cases for Practice-Based Learning

Ethics and evidence-based practice

Ethics and evidence-based practice

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Evidence-based medical practice: ethical considerations.

The practice of medicine according to ethical principles requires that decisions regarding treatment, preventive or interventional strategies, or quality of life of patients in relation to life-support treatment should be based on evidence as far as possible. Available evidence for Hong Kong is reviewed under the following categories: use of drugs, management strategies, service provision, and ...

Scientific evidence-based medical practice: where now?

A standard English language dictionary defines science as “The state of knowing: knowledge as distinguished from ignorance or misunderstanding”. The same dictionary defines scientific method as “principles and procedures for the systematic pursuit of knowledge involving the recognition and formulation of a problem, the collection of data through observation and experiment, and the formulation a...

Evidence-Based Practice, Ethics and EHDI Program Quality

Evidence-based practice (EBP) has evolved over the last decade into what might be considered a mantra of the new millennium. Early on in this evolution, Yale University’s Alvan Feinstein, who was a founding father of modern clinical epidemiology, noted that the evidence-based approach to clinical care ‘ . . . has acquired the kind of sanctity often accorded to motherhood, home and the flag . . ...