From Anecdote to EBM

Moving from anecdote to evidence.

Cognition and cannabis: from anecdote to advanced technology.

Whether the use of cannabis causes lasting cognitive or behavioural alteration has been controversial for decades. Studies addressing the problem have often been confounded by failure to account for residual acute effects or withdrawal and by failure to measure cognitive function before drug use. Investigative strategies have included neuropsychological testing, brain activation during cognitiv...

Who needs chest physiotherapy? Moving from anecdote to evidence.

At the beginning of this century, paediatrics was an art. Skills were learnt from a mentor, picking up tips and anecdotes while standing at your master’s side. Now, as practitioners of child health in the final years of this same century, life has changed. Anecdote and word of mouth have lost credibility and are replaced by scientific scrutiny and the rigour of evidence from carefully controlle...

Anecdote Recognition and Recommendation

We introduce a novel task Anecdote Recognition and Recommendation. An anecdote is a story with a point revealing account of an individual person. Recommending proper anecdotes can be used as evidence to support argumentative writing or as a clue for further reading. We represent an anecdote as a structured tuple — < person, story, implication >. Anecdote recognition runs on archived argumentati...

Adherence to EBM guidelines in clinical practice.

BACKGROUND Adequate and rational pharmacotherapy is an important element of rehabilitation of patients with myocardial infarction. Orders of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, domestic and international guidelines, and scientific publications - all contain a complete algorithm for rational pharmacotherapy [1, 2]. These documents are based on the principles of evidence-based medic...