The article covers basic information on the comparative evaluation of drugs efficacy and safety from standpoint both clinical experience evidence-based medicine. It is emphasized that despite all its advantages evidencebased medicine does not contradict "opinion-based medicine". There have been presented rules for conducting randomized trials referred to as most modern method evidence collectio...

There are many different definitions of evidence based medicine. One of the most is Evidence Based Medicine? Users' Guide to the Medical Literature, 3rd ed. Oxman AD, Sackett DL, Guyatt GH et al. Users' guides to the medical literature. I. How to get started. The Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group. JAMA. 1993. Download Users Guides To The Medical Literature A Manual For EvidenceBased Clinica...

The South Asian countries share common health challenges with very poor health indicators in the world. This is primarily because of political apathy, poverty and staggering health infrastructure. In resource-limited countries, an evidence-based approach can rationalize the treatment and be costeffective by reducing clinical practices that have no proven benefit. However, at present, evidenceba...

Evidence-based healthcare (EBHC) evolves from quality improvement initiatives and there is a significant overlap between the approaches and methodologies of evidence-based medicine (EBM) and quality management. The primary aims of both EBHC and quality management of health care services are to improve clinical effectiveness and patients' outcomes . EBM and evidencebased laboratory medicine (EBL...

1. Hong Kong western medicine doctors emphasise evidencebased practice over patient choice when considering traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). 2. The lack of opportunity to expose to the practice and scientific basis of TCM during western medical training should be redressed. 3. Better understanding of the regulations might promote collaboration between western medicine and TCM practitioners. ...

Centre of Research & Education in General Practice, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Health Sciences, Copenhagen, Denmark Region Zealand, Primary Health Care Research Unit Center for Medicine and the Media, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA Centre for EvidenceBased Medicine, Nuf...

Sze-jung Wu; Mark R. Lehto; Yuehwern Yih; Jason J. Saleem 3, ; B.N. Doebbeling 4, 5 School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA; VA HSR&D Center on Implementing Evidencebased Practice, Roudebush VAMC, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA; School of Engineering & Technology, IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA; IU Center for Health Services & Outcomes Research, Regen...

In this paper we motivate the need for a corpus for the development and testing of summarisation systems for evidencebased medicine. We describe the corpus which we are currently creating, and show its applicability by evaluating several simple query-based summarisation techniques using a small fragment of the corpus.

Clinical practice guidelines (CPG) propose preventive, diagnostic and treatment strategies based on the best available evidence. CPG enable practice of evidencebased medicine and bring about standardization of healthcare delivery in a given hospital, region, country or the whole world. This study explores generation of guidelines from data using machine learning, causal discovery methods and th...